Is Brazialian Jiu Jitsu the best defense against bears?
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If only Ida had my bear knifes wif me.......
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Not Brazilian jiu jitsu, my friends. Japanese karate! Japanese Man, 63, Fights Off Bear With Karate - Story | WTTG
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Except for the minor embellishment that black bears don't attack standing 6 ft tall on their hind legs, I can totally see that.
People I worked with in the Eastern Sierra of California (where guns are a no-no, of course) used to hit the ubiquitous black bears in the snout with brooms when they tried to get into the resort cabins or kitchens. Nobody ever got hurt. I can believe that a few determined karate kicks or punches would accomplish the same. Wouldn't try that on an Alaskan brown, though
Here's my Brazillian, 1937 Brazillian, that is....I think I'll put it up against bears!!
Best Regards, Les
Best Regards, Les
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I prefer a .460 S&W injection to said Yogi!
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Here's my Brazillian, 1937 Brazillian, that is....I think I'll put it up against bears!!
Best Regards, Les
Les-
Would you use a fairly warm .45 AR load with the 250 grain Keith bullet, maybe 800 FPS from that short barrel?
Wouldn't Magna stocks be more effective in controlling recoil?
Is this the Project Gun you were building, and is it complete?
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Well, THIS bear was a Japonezus Horrilibus, well known to walk around on two legs, in broad daylight, often carrying a pike with which to fetch unfortunate fruit pickers out of trees for impromtu, alfresco ursine repasts.
Some speculate that the pike is unnecessary precisely because of the stand-up tactic, and the more learned postulate that the use of the pike postdates the bears' retrieval of the fruit pickers, by a thousand years or more!
(Boooonnnggggg. This is the Far East, mysterious and exotic, Grasshopper!)
T-S, yes, this is my project gun, and it's really functionally complete. Just a couple of "artistic" touches left. For example, I bought a couple of reproduction .500 diameter large S&W medallions from a fellow forum member, which would be the correct size for a pre war set of round top service stocks. I have not installed them yet. But that is just an aesthetic touch, and the gun is functional right now. Probably the Magnas would be more effective in controlling recoil, but I think these give it the period look that I hoped to preserve. And with this heavy a gun I don't seem to notice that much recoil.
My apologies to the OP for the thread drift!!
I found this picture with a target that I shot with some of these reloads...notes on the target show the load and bullet. I was pretty happy with the accuracy. I guess that I was only half kidding about it being a "bear" gun. I guess we could do worse!!
I don't have my notes here right now, but these reloads seem to be pretty effective. (Edit...see above picture). Accuracy seems to be pretty good as well.
Best Regards, Les
My apologies to the OP for the thread drift!!
I found this picture with a target that I shot with some of these reloads...notes on the target show the load and bullet. I was pretty happy with the accuracy. I guess that I was only half kidding about it being a "bear" gun. I guess we could do worse!!
I don't have my notes here right now, but these reloads seem to be pretty effective. (Edit...see above picture). Accuracy seems to be pretty good as well.
Best Regards, Les
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T-S, yes, this is my project gun, and it's really functionally complete. Just a couple of "artistic" touches left. For example, I bought a couple of reproduction .500 diameter large S&W medallions from a fellow forum member, which would be the correct size for a pre war set of round top service stocks. I have not installed them yet. But that is just an aesthetic touch, and the gun is functional right now. Probably the Magnas would be more effective in controlling recoil, but I think these give it the period look that I hoped to preserve. And with this heavy a gun I don't seem to notice that much recoil.
I found this picture with a target that I shot with some of these reloads...notes on the target show the load and bullet. I was pretty happy with the accuracy. I guess that I was only half kidding about it being a "bear" gun. I guess we could do worse!!
I don't have my notes here right now, but these reloads seem to be pretty effective. (Edit...see above picture). Accuracy seems to be pretty good as well.
Best Regards, Les
Les-
Thanks. But is that Peter and Catherine on the ruble note?
P.S. I can see the gun and target now. Did you shoot the target upside down because Brazil is in the Southern Hemisphere?
As for bears attacking on two legs, they may. Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton supposedly stabbed some with a Bowie knife when they rose like that as he deliberately hunted them that way!
A British lady in India about 1930 shot a sloth bear as it advanced on her on two legs as she descended from a machan, where she'd been waiting for a tiger to shoot. Her rifle wasn't in hand, so she drew a Colt New Service, caliber .45 Colt, not .455, and killed the bear. The incident was one of many in a Colt released book.
I've seen film of black bears walking on two legs. They can do that very well.
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Brazilian Ju jitsu, is that the same as what they call Capoeira down there?
Steve W
Steve W
Brazilian Jujitsu. is that the same as what they call Capoeira down there?
Steve W
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Ray
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No Stevens, Capoeira, is completly different, using basically the legs to reach out opponents. Looks like a dance that´s carried out by two contenders at the sound of percussion instruments, the most notorious of them the Berimbau.Google it up and you´ll see pictures.
Regards, Ray
Regards, Ray
Most martial arts experts are in 100% agreement that there are times when it is appropriate to RUN! 
Here's my Brazillian, 1937 Brazillian, that is....I think I'll put it up against bears!!
Best Regards, Les
That's not Jutsu. But it sure is some "Juju" against bears.
You might need jujitsu to defend yourself against these bears.
Do like #99 and just cut one.
Effective as any other of these suggestions...
