The Lodge
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Morning walk in a small redwood forest park. I was surprised the number of deer we saw.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
This pen was set up by the prior owner, I'm just now messing with it, gonna feed protien as this location. I'm going to clean the pen just enough for deer to have enough room enter/egress, gonna keep it kind wild in there.
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Interesting reading on "self defense caliber vs bear attack". While I am not going to intentionally use a 9mm for self defense against a bear; I may be more willing to use hard cast 45ACP.
www.ammoland.com
Defense Against Bears with Pistols: 97% Success rate, 37 Incidents
Using a pistol to defend against bear attacks seems to be a viable option.
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tex
That's Mr Asshole to you
If I'm going to be in bear country hiking, or wade fishing, I am taking a wheel gun in 44mag, 454 casull, 480 Ruger, 460SW, or 500SW. Only auto I would take is a 10mm. I have always liked the 454 for some reason, and would like to have that wrist breaker in my collection.
My brother was supposed to get married at this venue in Colorado that was out of town a bit in this canyon that screamed bear or lion country. I joked that all the groomsmen needed leather over the shoulder holsters with 1911 10mm.
Covid happened and they changed venue.
My brother was supposed to get married at this venue in Colorado that was out of town a bit in this canyon that screamed bear or lion country. I joked that all the groomsmen needed leather over the shoulder holsters with 1911 10mm.
Covid happened and they changed venue.
In another forum that is all about mountain hunting the people that live in bear country say the "hand cannons" are popular but often too heavy and left at base camp. The 10mm semi autos seem to be very popular with that group.
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10mm with Underwood ammo. Done.
PSU Taco85
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Interesting reading on "self defense caliber vs bear attack". While I am not going to intentionally use a 9mm for self defense against a bear; I may be more willing to use hard cast 45ACP.
Defense Against Bears with Pistols: 97% Success rate, 37 Incidents
Using a pistol to defend against bear attacks seems to be a viable option.
Interesting indeed. I shipped my 10mm up this year. Ran into 3 separate bears on the buskin and Russian rivers, didn’t have to fire a shot thankfully
PSU Taco85
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Finally got unpacked and cleaned up from the trip and had a chance to go through some of our pics. Here's a few more highlights from the Kodiak trip.
Captain trying not to laugh the day I got seasick
Fishing the Buskin River
A little ride out to Saltery Cove for some flyish type fishing:
Tiger Rockfish
Dinner the last night at our place, we did it up nice surf n turf and all the fixins
A souvenir that hitched a ride home
And this morning UPS next day delivered this to the house
two freezers stacked up that will hopefully last me until next year's trip!
Captain trying not to laugh the day I got seasick
Fishing the Buskin River
A little ride out to Saltery Cove for some flyish type fishing:
Tiger Rockfish
Dinner the last night at our place, we did it up nice surf n turf and all the fixins
A souvenir that hitched a ride home
And this morning UPS next day delivered this to the house
two freezers stacked up that will hopefully last me until next year's trip!
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Finally got unpacked and cleaned up from the trip and had a chance to go through some of our pics. Here's a few more highlights from the Kodiak trip.
Captain trying not to laugh the day I got seasick
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Fishing the Buskin River
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A little ride out to Saltery Cove for some flyish type fishing:
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Tiger Rockfish
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Dinner the last night at our place, we did it up nice surf n turf and all the fixins
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A souvenir that hitched a ride home
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And this morning UPS next day delivered this to the house
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two freezers stacked up that will hopefully last me until next year's trip!
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Awesomeness!
PSU Taco85
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Alaska is really a great place to visit and I plan on going back many times as I can. Summers there are perfect temps, 55-65 degrees and sunrise is 0630 and doesn't set until around 2230! I'm sure the winters aren't great as they have barely any sunlight but I also heard from the locals that Kodiak doesn't get as much snow as up in the tundra since they're right on the water.
We saw all kinds of wildlife as well in addition to the bears, a few bald eagles, a fox, and a some kind of native weasel (which I couldn't get a pic of)
This is my first time catching some octopus, so not sure I am going to cook it or not (never tried it in my life), or maybe give it to a friend/family member, I got two packs like this one