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I encountered the bear mauled guy on a solo self-contained bicycle ride down the AlCan in 1999. It's sorta problematic getting any kind of firearm across American and Canadian borders...let alone the logistics of hauling one on a bicycle...and a handgun is totally out of the question in Canada...

It is, indeed, very silly advice. The best one could do (for grizz/brown bears) in such circumstances is to roll yourself up in a ball and attempt to protect your neck with your hands. The bear may perceive that the threat has been eliminated. I actually met a badly disfigured man in the YT...

Not only are they (as are all bears) incredibly fast but grizz/brown bears are totally unimpeded by any brush, and have a genetically ingrained predisposition to head directly towards whatever they perceive as a direct threat. I was always amused by the advice to climb a tree to escape grizz...

I think it's a testament to wild bears' (bears not habituated to human contact) strong tendency to avoid humans under most circumstances. We fished the stream the morning after we saw the sow and big cubs (indeed most of bays we visited had brown bears rummaging around on shore) and while we...

Not nearly big enough when you've been watching a massive sow with two cubs the size of adult black bears foraging at the mouth of the stream you're going to fish tomorrow morning.

The standard USFS issue in SE AK is a .375 H&H Magnum.

Yeah.... but those MT grizz are tiny compared to a big AK coastal brown bear. 😄

Excellent advice! Almost spit out my morning coffee regarding your holster comment......I have a large collection acquired over the past decades, although I haven't purchased one in several years....once I found what works for me. Tend to carry larger handguns IWB and smaller ones in pocket...

People with little hands often find firing Glocks uncomfortable. 😄 Seriously though, there are few 1911's as beautifully executed as those by Kimber.

Duluth's FLEXPEDITION pants are also excellent for carry, with the added benefit of containing zero cotton, which makes them better in the sticks. Depending upon I'm doing I'll carry a baby Glock 42 or a Ruger LCP (laser under the barrel model), both in .380. Occasionally carry a Glock 30 (45...

Congratulations on having the good sense to take a handgun safety course prior to even consider owning one. Despite having owned and used firearms since early childhood (and I'm now 74), and a stint in the Marine Corps, I don't consider myself any sort of expert on the subject...but it did...

Somewhat of the same situation exists for the mosquito borne disease West Nile Virus. Several years ago a coworker spent weeks on life support in an ICU recovering from WNV that was finally definitively diagnosed via serological testing. He still routinely encounters adamant disbelief from...

My grandfather had big cardboard bins full of bamboo flyrods, and as a teenager (more than 60 years ago) I fished quite a few of them because I couldn't afford exotic fiberglass. Once I'd acquired fiberglass (and later graphite) flyrods I had no desire to fish bamboo...didn't like the feel, or...

4th Earl of Asquith, fishing his beloved Shimano Asquith.

Good point! No handheld device can provide the kind of wide-ranging detailed info found on a good topo map.

I refuse to own a flyrod with a name that makes me sound like I've got a lisp.

I tend to leave my Garmin Inreach Explorer on the entire time I'm in the sticks because in an emergency I wouldn't want to waste time waiting for it to 'boot up' after turning on (though it's pretty fast), and especially when I'm afoot because I use its mapping and GPS waypoint functions. Even...

With an unpaired mini (I only have the full screen version) it would be difficult for updates and communication...but with the large full screen Inreach units you just use the on-board keypad and don't need to 'pair-up' with a smartphone. I also have preset messages.

I use the same rationale to justify my other purchasing dumfukery as well! 😄

Hell...I think anybody who would pay $1k for a Sage is a dumfuk...this is a whole 'nuther level of dumfukery.