Big Grizzly and a Tough Tool Box

[Golphin]

Massive Grizzly Bear Attacks Workers Pickup Truck Right In Front Of Them

 

[Tom Beavert]

Hey my lunch was in there.
TB

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I keep telling my crew not to leave their lunches in my tool box. That is why we have a pick-a-nick basket, right Mr. Ranger Sir?

 

[bummer]

Reminds me of the famous quote "Never Get Out of The Boat"

 

[vonn]

Better to be lucky than good! Don’t think the window will keep a bear out, I would have been rolling at least 60 mph faster than the bear was running!

 

[Kurusu]

Sooo. What's the best caliber for a tool box?

 

[BSA1]

Looks like the bear has a new strategy for getting his meals. Destroy the humans vehicle so that they only way they have to escape is on foot. Hunting them on foot is much easier.

 

[BearBio]

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.....Except for bears!
Bears will KILL you!

Spoken by a wildlife biologist with 20+ years of experience and an MS in bear behavior!

 

[billwill]

looks like he was just looking for that quarter that he dropped in the pickup bed. That was a determined bear!

 

[REM 3200]

Sooo. What's the best caliber for a tool box?

A "Big Bear" big bore with 1800 f/lbs of energy might be enough to scare him off.
If not, call for an Artillery fire mission.

 

[Protected One]

This is why I wouldn't trust bear spray (alone) when in grizzly territory:
They tried to "haze" him away....with no effect!

Grizzly bear attack: Backcountry guide mauled to death while fishing near Yellowstone National Park

 

[BearBio]

This is why I wouldn't trust bear spray (alone) when in grizzly territory:
They tried to "haze" him away....with no effect!

Grizzly bear attack: Backcountry guide mauled to death while fishing near Yellowstone National Park

If you read the article, they tried to "haze" the bear away. I don't see where they deployed bear spray. The victim had spray but they don't have evidence he used it. Also, was it the same bear both times (i.e. necropsy performed?). Bears just came out of winter sleep and are REALLY hungry! He had a treasure trove in the form of a dead moose!

Know WHY grizzlies have that big humpback? Because they live off of caterpillars and ground squirrels when the first emerge (after purging with grass). Forget Oak Island, a moose carcass is Blackbeard's treasure to them!

The mountain men called grizzlies "Ole Ephraim" ("Leave him be for he is set in his ways")

All of the above being said, my wife and I were discussing a Yellowstone fly fishing trip this fall just this morning; we both will be carrying spray and I will have a G20 with heavy hard cast under my shirt.

 

[BearBio]

Update: Apparently they did get the right bear!

 

[Absalom]

When I was at the Bear & Wolf Center in West Yellowstone some years ago, they were testing how various containers stood up to bears, by putting them into the grizzly enclosure. They probably put some food inside.

Maybe a good idea to hand a manufacturer's rep who claims their dumpster is "bear-safe" a Big Mac meal and make him spend a few hours inside the dumpster.

 

[BearBio]

When I was doing my Thesis study, there was a bear in Angeles Forest that taught her cubs to climb in and hand food out through the small "hatch". She also learned that if she pushed a dumpster so that the wheel would catch a rock, it would tip over (Remember hitting a rock while skateboarding=I broke at least 2 toes that way!).

People would come just to see her. She was shot by an "Undocumented citizen" claiming self defense. Of course, his first comments were "Do I get to keep the skin?"