If we tried this in Canmore (or anywhere else in Canada), we would be breaking so many laws that you'd be in prison longer than child molesters. I'm pretty sure the only people - outside of LEO - who are allowed to carry handguns are trappers or other licensed professionals who work in the remote part of the north and have to carry for protection against bears.
You can be armed security as well, and you can get concealed carry if you transport large sums of cash or artifacts like diamonds, etc. Otherwise, there is no "citizen" carry permit, concealed or otherwise.
and see that's the environment where I'd feel I'd need it. Back before covid when I was running trails regularly I encountered some bobcats at a distance, and figured if I saw them at a distance they also saw me up close. So I bought it, then covid happened, then broken leg happened, then... I'll see how PT goes. They're gonna try me running in a few hours. My thinking is I never go hunting or hiking without my sidearm on me, one because it's a safety thing with the big cats and wild boars, and two because it's legal and my property so I can carry that as opposed to a less effective bear mace or some shit. Without going off too far into the firearm thread, Texas just legalized constitutional carry, which means you can carry a handgun without a license as long as you are a legal firearm owner and it's displayed openly. I don't agree with this law, and will always have my CCL, and conceal carry, because I'm not an idiot or an asshole, but it certainly makes things different. Feel bad for y'all though. Like if I was Nett fly fishing a remote stream, I'd feel a lot better having some firepower on me in case a surprise bear wanted the fish I caught and decided to remove me as an obstacle. Obviously, utilizing it is a last choice, but if it's between that and me becoming bear shit, I'm gonna use the options available to me.
Generally you have less of a chance of being injured by a bear when carrying bear spray than when carrying a gun. It's a pretty good deterrent for other animals and people, and has fewer legal issues. Stopping a surprise bear at close range with a handgun is a tall order. I mean, do what you're comfortable with, but bear spray is good stuff.
Exactly. There’s a reason I have a quick access bear spray holster on the chest strap of my waders. That being said, it only goes so far. Having some real firepower around as well makes me feel much more comfortable.
If anyone watches either the Black Rifle Coffee Company podcast or Cleared Hot, the BRCC guys had a close call on a bear hunt last month. They've told the story on both podcasts, but essentially three of them were on a once-in-a-lifetime guided trip to the very remote tip of Alaska and had three bear tags with them. The spot-and-stalked a large bear, managed to shoot it and were walking up to the carcass when another bear they hadn't seen came charging out of the tundra less than 50' from where they were. It sounded like they lucked out, because the two guys who didn't shoot the first bear were able to pivot and shoot the second. Both guys had to fire a shot to bring it down. The guide said in all his years he'd never seen anything like it, and it sounds like everyone was lucky to be alive. Then they had to portage all that fucking meat the kilometers out from where they were.
if I'm in bear country, I absolutely carry it. Usually either in a quick access area, or in my hand because I'm fucking terrified. And while I know the population on this board is smarter than the average.... uh, bear, dear god please learn how to use it!! Create a cloud between you and the predator. Don't just spray and pray. That being said, having that lethal backup option is a nice safety blanket. As we get more into RVing, I will absolutely be getting a glock 20 (10 mm) on a nice chest rig.
this is how I got treed by a hog (first time). Went in to get the one I killed, didn't see the other boar in the brush. It was not happy with me. Fortunately I was able to scamper up a tree and had my .40 on my side. This was before I made a habit of carrying at all times in the brush, and it was a great learning experience. It is a habit now.
r.kelly jury found him guilty of racketeering. 20 years min. Waiting to hear how jury decides on other charges. Dude brought us some amazing music, and I hope he rots.
I don’t know how he skated on the piss tape. It was him on film pissing on a 15 year old. You don’t get more direct evidence than that! Was she 15 when they met but 18+ on the pee tape so it wasn’t technically child porn/statutory rape depicted? Also he seems like the type with an entourage and lifestyle where he could have pissed away hundreds of millions in earnings. I could legit see him filing bankruptcy.
Besides making some amazing jams, he was not liked amongst his peers, and besides the obvious reputation was also a notorious crybaby who would often walk off stage early in tour if the crooked wasn’t to his liking. People separate the artist from the art for so long, it’s to their own decision when they completely say “Fuck this person”. It’s like Ronnie Dunn— a another silky singing voice who also happens to be a brain-dead schizophrenic retard when he is saying anything but song lyrics.
He was already in enough trouble for making the skyscrapers of NYC look bad back in the 80’s. Now nobody gets to have an open window.
Around a year ago, the reservoir bottle snapped off of the soap dispenser in my kitchen sink. I ordered a replacement and also a plug cap in case the replacement didn't work out. The replacement broke in the same way earlier today, and I said to hell with it, but I'll be damned if I can find where I put the plug cap. I can just get another one for like $4, but I know how pissed off I'll be when I stumble across it in a couple of months.
Why are soap dispensers universally awful? I even paid a bunch of money at one point for one of those Oxo stainless dispensers because a lot of the Oxo stuff solves basic annoying problems with utensils, but the fucker leaked within a couple months and the warranty replacement didn't last much longer. We gave up and went back to dispensing the soap directly from the manufacturer's bottle. I don't care that much about the aesthetics, but it's nice to have a pump when your hands are caked with grease or raw meat or something.
Maybe try wiping while standing up so you don’t get poop all over your hands each time you go? Then you won’t need to worry about having some industrial-grade soap or whatever.