ever think your having a bad day?

[Phorester]

It is now dawning on me that for the last few years, I've been invited by my younger friends on hikes & camping trips because I'm now the "slow friend". 

[leweee]

 :D

[Minnesota_boy]

I tried carrying a 12ga Defender while river fishing in baar country but the DanG thing was a nuisance in the brush and I figured by the time I got it up, a round in the chamber and the safety off, it would be too dark inside the bear to shoot. ;D

Don't worry about aiming the right way.  When your inside, every way is bear.

[Samuel]

I tried carrying a 12ga Defender while river fishing in baar country but the DanG thing was a nuisance in the brush and I figured by the time I got it up, a round in the chamber and the safety off, it would be too dark inside the bear to shoot. ;D

I just went through a defender training this fall where we get this guy off of Vancouver island to come up and give us a course.  He is a retired RCMP, and does all the combat SWAT training, pepper spray etc. for the RCMP in Western Canada.

Anyways, if I were in bear county, there would always be one in the chamber with the safety on.  Its amazing how well you react to these situations, given the training we went through was staged and the bears we pop up targets and one was on a pulley mechanism, but when you run into the bush for 50 meters to get you heart rate up, and have this drill sergeant screaming at you...things get exciting.

Whats amazing that only after a day 1/2 of this, you can get 1/4 inch groups at 25 yards.