My third option, if death was required, would be to go like Errol Flynn. My
age, of a heart attack, while making love to a much younger woman. As I
recall, she was 15 which might cause problems with the law and her
relatives. You're right about the black bear thing. There are many of them
and much more opportunity for contact. Bullets sometimes will bounce off
grizzly skulls. Then they are really pissed. /jmac
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Wayne Culberson
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:15 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: UPS update/ well maybe the subject has changed now
> Not a proper debate for this forum as there is too much emotion
> involved.
I suspect it would be a hot topic, perhaps more so than the hot chili-pepper
thread.
>With respect to protection from bears, there is now quite a bit of
> data that says bear spray is a better deterrent to attack than a firearm.
A
> gun-shot grizzly will usually stay alive long enough to get you before
they
> die unless the shot hits a vital neurological center.
We don't have grizzlies, but some statistics (don't you hate statistics?)
I've read say more people are killed by black bears than by grizzlies. I can
assure you that a 444 Marlin stops a 400-pound black bear, but admittedly it
did keep coming until the fifth shot. Probably should've aimed for the head,
especially had it been a grizzly, but I didn't want to spoil that. (If
Olympus content is needed, I could post a C5050 picture of his stuffed head,
but hopefully it's not needed :-)
> I'd rather be killed fighting a bear than die in bed from cancer. /jmac
Okay, if we were given choices on this, hopefully there would be at least a
third option :-)
Wayne
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