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Greg wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:12 pmRange of black bears has expanded *tremendously* such that bears are now in areas that they've never been in before so long as there have been white people keeping records.
A buddy of mine is a fdny firemarshall, and he just bought a glock 20 for hiking up in north jersey and the poconos for bears.
I told him to be more concerned about mountain lions, which are almost certainly up in NEPA and are almost certainly more dangerous to encounter.
I suggested he use Underwood 180grain bonded.
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
I have ecountered cougarsa couple of times. Once while rabbit hunting, it ran when it saw me, but I had my 12 gauge so I was not too worried.
The other time I was fishing about knee deep in a stream and it strolled by on the bank between me and a corn field. This was before shall issue in MO so I had nothing more dangerous than a treble hook. Fortunately it did not seem to notice me, but I waited a bit and went back to the car. Started carrying at least pepper spray while fishing after that.
