The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on August 12, 2008, 09:33:04 PM
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The " Ability to Carry" debate on National Parks ramped up today with this report.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gOFasRWiJ7-T9PbxUQ2Nmv4YypcgD92H1EN81
The father fought the bear off twice,.. bare-handed,.... wouldn't carrying a "something" with 5 to 15 shots be helpful?
The Game Wardens killed this bear anyway. an 86 pound young male,...My question is,.. what if it was 186 pounds?
Than there would be TWO fatalities. This applies to the "Camping Gun" thread, "Out for the weekend, in the woods, scenario,."
I have a 13 year old son, who eats all day and still grows like a weed,..(kinda on the slim side some would say skinny),.
I would have at least pulled out my Kershaw pocket knife, and been "goin at it" as they say,.. if it was my son, or anyone else in my direct presence. Bottom line,. they were lucky.
Being able to carry even my P3AT with Gold-Dots, technically "legally", would be something. :o Sure a .44 or S&W .500 would be ideal, but in my reality, just being able to carry on National Park land, (ours as Americans anyway?) would just seem right.,...
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Man has been carrying weapons into the wilderness on rambles for eons. It is idiotic to think that we should do otherwise. The politicians' skill at overcomplicated things is tremendous. I go into the woods. There are things in the woods that can kill me. I should bring something to protect myself with. Duh! ::)
When society attempts to limit what man can do in the wilderness, you know that we are on the threshold of enslavement. Man, it seems, has become too domesticated...