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Originally posted by Cowperson+Sep 8 2005, 02:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Sep 8 2005, 02:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Vulcan@Sep 8 2005, 01:59 PM
If a bear makes a move on me and if I have a gun, I won't hesitate to use it, no matter where it is.
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I think if you're bear hunting in a national park you're going to jail. I don't think you can even have a gun in a national park . . . .
If I remember right, there used to be stations at the park entrances requiring you to plug up said weapon.
I had a small black bear come out of the bush behind myself and my two Golden's a few weeks ago . . . . we were heading the other way and I happened to look back to see him about 50 feet in my rear. He turned a bit and sniffed the air. The next time I looked back, he was heading into the bush again. I kept walking and the dogs, who were dragging me along on their leashes, never saw him fortunately.
I didn't have a gun. I did have shorts filled with poop I could have thrown though.
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Actually I wouldn't go bear hunting anywhere or carry a rifle in a national park but I hopefully wouldn't hesitate to use it in self defense. Bear meat, I've been told, is best when the bear has been feeding on berries.
National parks, while having good intentions of preserving wild life[and I agree with this] is really not a natural environment unless you include man, and man is a hunter who has weapons. I'm an old man by most of your standards and I spent my early life living in place only to be gotten to by boat or plane on the edge of the woods. I roamed the beaches and the forest as a kid and never worried about animals attacking except one time when I confronted a cougar. Nowadays these animals have no fear of man and are moving into our territory for the easy pickings.