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I have posted the full account before, but here's a quick recap: While moose hunting in NE B.C., along Telegraph Trail, near Punchaw Lake, 2 buddies and I came across bear tracks, while walking the old cut line for the 1890s telegraph to Alaska. I was in the lead by 30' or so, and as I passed some brush on my left, I saw the scattered remains of a moose kill, hide, legs, gut pile, and head left by a previous hunter. As I looked ahead again there was a medium size grizzly, red, with a blonde saddle, coming at me full tilt, from about 50 yards away. I was carrying the '06 at port, with the 1.5 to 6 scope set at minimum, and instantly raised it to my eye and fired 3 shots in quick succession. At the 3rd shot the bear fell nose first into the dirt just 20' in front of me, but I could see it was still breathing. By this time, one buddy was at my right shoulder, and put another round into it, and it was over. F&W measured the skull (required by law), and reported to me that it was a healthy 3 year old. I still have the beautiful hide, done up as a rug, but it's in storage right now. It was the most intense few seconds of my life.

Found this paper during a internet binge of search. I found it interesting. Smaylilh or Wild People Archaeology .pdf

^^^^^ condiment spray. The carrier for the irritant is vegetable oil. The spray is sensitive to wind patterns and temperature affects the propellant. I have watched a territorial dispute full speed charge by an Alaskan Brown Bear directed towards another animal. Top speed is impressive while running straight. You will not have any effect on a large charging animal. A little black bear? Perhaps. Purchase at your own risk. I am sure that a lot of bear spray and dingle bells have been sold. There is that joke about identifying Grizzly scat. The dingle bells smell like peppers.

Thanks! This all took place around the time the bigfoot forum TV thing started buzzing around so we were originally going to be cutting portions of the investigation at wineberry for that purpose. Then all that seemed to go sideways so we decided to just release it ourselves. We had a great time documenting the entire thing as wemt went step by step in the investigation process so were just going to keep doing it when were out and producing a continued run of investigation based videos that are geared the same way this was and less of the gritty and fast paced vidoes we had released in the past.

That attack is very similar to mine, where I inadvertently got between a 3 year old grizzly and his moose meal. What saved me was the fact that I was moose hunting, with my 30-06 loaded and in my hands. The memory of that charge still gives me goose bumps while typing this, and it happened 40 years ago. I knew a fellow who survived a similar attack to this young man, with very similar injuries. Surgery could never fully restore his face, and he suffered emotionally for years, eventually committing suicide. Very sad.

"Then the stones will hit the house".., Took a small one in the left calf while standing on the trail. Never smelled them but the whistling is something not recommended😉

Give me the rattler all day, every day..;) Those Grizzly's scare the absolute living daylights out of me and i do not trust them one little iota.

Interesting paper, @xdivision. I'm familiar with the area, having driven through those parts with roads, and flown over the wilder areas in a light plane at low altitude. It is extremely wild country, with access to Woodfibre (there once was a pulp mill there, hence the name) only by water. My first "steady girlfriend" in my early teens was a girl who grew up in Woodfibre.

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Brown bears are killers. Boars routinely kill and eat their own young, a cannibalistic trait that is rare among apex mammals. ADFG studies have confirmed that predation rates on moose calves (% of calves killed) by brown bears can exceed 50% of all calves born, and that each adult brown bear kills an average of 0.5-2.2 adult moose (. 1 year old) annually. You can be assured that sasquatch young are also on the menu. If sasquatches were superman bear killers, there would have been no grizzlies upon the arrival of Columbus. Instead, in less than two centuries of the European arrival on the west coast, the grizzlies were wiped out.

Good luck to you, w. I'm glad for you and everyone else who is beginning to get themselves out there. I'm going tomorrow for the third time this early Spring season. If I find any prints they're going into a labeled Nalgene sample jar

But yet, at UCLA and UC Santa Cruz, the CALeDNA program (environmental species conservation) for citizen scientists has as its head Miroslava Munguia Ramos who was the one who issued the DNA results of the Expedition: Bigfoot team's DNA find from the soil under the tree structure in Kentucky. Now if Bigfoot was off the table in Academia how the heck is it that a lab at the university not only accepted the samples, but ran them and issued the results. It tells me that discovery can happen. Now all of that was basically for the public's consumption but it could be indicative of what might transpire under more private circumstances. I am nothing if not encouraged by such possibilities.

First time out this Spring and many more to come. It was cool today (mid 40s) and raining and my mission was to look for prints in wet areas. Went to an area where last year I found a 17" footprint in a wet area. Creeks are all around several of which flow into this pond. I decided to follow several upstream to look for spillage areas that might hold footprints. Didn't find any but it felt fantastic to get out.

Nice work on the video!

Very cool, I liked it! I have also seen that other guy, Ron Lanham, before but I can't place it. Keep up the good work! Cheers!

I don’t understand how people think knowledge will keep you safe. Bears like humans are individuals who make choices. We can formulate averages.... “most bears will do X when there is Y”. But everyone who enters Griz territory is just a meatcicle in the food chain until you get back in your car. Even black bears, cougars and wolves pose a threat. Go armed and vigilant.

Each of us here has our own agenda and what is important to me may not comport with anyone else's idea of success. That's ok. I've said, ad nausem, here that I want things to stay exactly as they are. No official discovery and no body on a slab. My mission is a daytime sighting--and to that end I will be out there planting myself in spots I think will allow for that possibility and doing things that I hope may increase my odds even if only a bit. I acknowledge that my approach may be unorthodox and not in line with mainstream sasquatchery. The big secret is---pssst, and don't mention this to anyone, it only has to work for me.

WHEN successful, not if.... Then do it again? Yes To what end? because it's fun. Doesn't fit your agenda? don't care

Here we go, finnaly got the video finished for the wineberry site investigation. Follow the link below if you want to check it out! https://youtu.be/yRtPygAd5Kg

Welcome to the Forums, MeJaneYouTarzan! If you get to take a summer trip, I hope it proves fruitful.

If you are referring to sonar, then no, whales dont blow their prey apart, BUT, I have seen a documentary where a dolphin used a sonar "beam" to confuse the **** out of a hammerhead that got too close to baby, and orcas and dolphins that use sonar to find prey hiding in the sand under them. Bats can do a similar thing to echo locate prey. So is there a precedent for mammals using sound in a "weaponized" manner, absafreakinlutely. I have had this done to me in my opinion, by THEM, a few years backs, classic infrasound symptoms, and one of my cameras running at the time was fried. And yes, I had a visual of the creature as it retreated, too much coincidence.

LOL, I'll leave that up to you, I'd rather not waste their time.