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Alone in the Alaskan wilderness - a desperate miner vs a grizzly bear!
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<blockquote data-quote="JOE S AK" data-source="post: 615316" data-attributes="member: 21444"><p>G'Day All,</p><p></p><p>Here's my thoughts on this story - as an Alaskan who has spent some time beach mining 7 miles West of Nome:</p><p></p><p>This "Wilderness Mining Guy" was in a remote camp by himself (first problem),</p><p></p><p>was down to only 2 bullets left for his weapon of some sort after a week. That would be one last shot at the bear (that he had been shooting at all week!) and then ""The Final Bullet to ....... "" (second problem),</p><p></p><p>had his camp somewhere near Nome and yet close to the beach where marauding POLAR BEARS are known to transit the area (third problem), (((we had one pass around our camp 7 miles West of Nome)))</p><p></p><p>"had interaction with" (you know what I want to say) a POLAR BEAR (the only bears in that area) seemingly not understanding that humans are only one rung down on that specie's food chain (yes, there is the #4 problem),</p><p></p><p>was guilty of storing food very near camp when bears can smell food for up to 10 miles away downwind (up to #5 now),</p><p></p><p>seemingly had no way to abandon the "camp" (yes sir - that's absolutely #6),</p><p></p><p>and only had one OMG chance in a hundred for help which was to put an "SOS" marking on the roof just in case a helicopter happened to fly overhead (# 7).</p><p></p><p>Yeah - terminal stupidity with a creature that regularly stalks, kills and eats any and every animal it comes across when hungry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JOE S AK, post: 615316, member: 21444"] G'Day All, Here's my thoughts on this story - as an Alaskan who has spent some time beach mining 7 miles West of Nome: This "Wilderness Mining Guy" was in a remote camp by himself (first problem), was down to only 2 bullets left for his weapon of some sort after a week. That would be one last shot at the bear (that he had been shooting at all week!) and then ""The Final Bullet to ....... "" (second problem), had his camp somewhere near Nome and yet close to the beach where marauding POLAR BEARS are known to transit the area (third problem), (((we had one pass around our camp 7 miles West of Nome))) "had interaction with" (you know what I want to say) a POLAR BEAR (the only bears in that area) seemingly not understanding that humans are only one rung down on that specie's food chain (yes, there is the #4 problem), was guilty of storing food very near camp when bears can smell food for up to 10 miles away downwind (up to #5 now), seemingly had no way to abandon the "camp" (yes sir - that's absolutely #6), and only had one OMG chance in a hundred for help which was to put an "SOS" marking on the roof just in case a helicopter happened to fly overhead (# 7). Yeah - terminal stupidity with a creature that regularly stalks, kills and eats any and every animal it comes across when hungry. [/QUOTE]
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