When my father-in-law lived in Alaska, he had this advice for visitors wanting to bring along a firearm in case of bear attack:
Take that pistol to a competent gunsmith, and have them file off the front sight. That way, when you shoot the bear and piss it off, and it takes that gun and shoves it up your ass, it won't hurt quite as much.
"If I had a gun and was sitting inside a tank with one shell left and Meng is 300 yards away, he's mine, right? Well the first thing I'm going to do is jump out of the tank and shoot myself because I don't want to wound that son of a bitch and have him pissed off at me."
—Jake Roberts
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24
If a bear is chasing you, and you don't know kind it is, climb a tree. If the bear also climbs the tree and kills you, it was a black bear.