I've seen deer not move when a gun was fired. I imagine a hungry, charging bear, and there are three of those, isn't going to pay much attention to a few bangs. Best bet, get in the tornado drill position, have one gorilla swiping the rats and hawks off your back, the bears and other gorillas make the other large animals dead.
Here's an article, one example of bear vs. gun. http://juneauempire.com/news/2017-06-30/armed-11-year-old-boy-saves-fishing-party-charging-bear His first shot, light load bird shot, did nothing to the bear. The noise was not a deterrent. The three bears and the gorillas are the baddest animals in this scenario, my opinion.
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See now birdshot is used usually to scare off charging bears. I could link you to plenty of charging bears being deterred by the sound of a gunshot. Now imagine a .308 semi auto hitting the bear or wolf or fucking gorilla. We have guns, anti-personnel fragmentation mines, sarin gas, napalm, and meals ready to eat. Most of these animals are on the verge of extinction because we fuck them up too much. Humans are the baddest animals in the jungle. As my dad once put it, “Have birds been to the moon? Get back to me when they’ve mastered rocket science.” Suck it animals. A steady diet of psuedofed and guifen usually does it for me. The anti expectorant is probably already in the Advil just find a psuedofed dose that works for you.
It all depends on the scenario. If the guy has distance and high ground, then I'd take a single armed man who can shoot against all of them. Who the fuck uses birdshot when you're up against wild animals that aren't, you know, birds? Arm yourself for the situation and desired objective. Assume that there is some distance for the initial engagement... like everything is lined up at 1k yards and someone yells, "go!" .50 Barrett semi auto, M-19 grenade launcher, .50 Desert Eagle, and an 870, and you'd probably be good against all of them.
I've never known of anyone who does this, and I've known a lot of people that work and play in bear country, myself included. It sounds nice to have the first round be "non-lethal" (birdshot), but that just means that if you NEED that first round to be effective, you're fucked. Every time you go out and have someone armed for bear defence, it was always SSG's or slugs in a short barreled shotgun. EVERY round was a lethal round, and if you wanted to scare the bear away then you just plugged a tree or stump or something in that general direction, and the short barrel meant the rifle/shotgun was less likely to get caught up in underbrush or hit trees if/when the guy had to spin around to line up on an approaching bear. (Pro-tip... they don't just politely announce themselves in front of the group that is travelling down a nice path... they come from any and all directions, and are amazingly stealthy for such a big fucking animal). The only time we ever used birdshot was to get some partridge while we were out.
Revisit the rules of the game, Kubla. You get one guy, not even yourself, to defend you against what is coming to kill you. Put that group together with the goal of killing one man, I bet they succeed. If they have any natural vegetation for cover, you lose your advantage of picking them off at a distance. Those animals are near extinction because they get shot from long distances while minding their own business. That's why I like rabbit hunting, it's a bit more challenging than sitting in a stand and shooting a deer as it eats your bait pile, drinks from a stream or walks that trail you found going to their food or water source. We do agree about the hawks, I don't think they are a big concern here.
I'd take the gorillas and the rats....assuming the gorillas could throw the rats at whatever is coming to get me. I'd imagine a rat volley would discourage most attackers.
Set up one trained guy with the goal of defending against that group, and I bet he wins. This is assuming that you get the choice of Mr. Seal Team 6, and not Larry from Accounting, and have access to his tools of the trade. Even the densest hunting ground I've hunted in gave you about 100 yards effective shooting distance... and a highly trained, highly motivated Mr. Seal Team 6 can do a shit-ton of damage given that hundred yards. And that's just from the ground. In a tree stand, or from a zip line? BRING IT.
Please no animals are going extinct because of stand hunting. Gorillas are killed for bushmeat by poor retards in Africa with AKs. This was a stupid mongoloid Facebook post.
You don't have marginally dense forest in Canada? I surveyed land for a living when I was younger, I probably spent somewhere in the realm of 12,000 hours in the woods, just at work. I don't think I ever traversed through a forest that I could see 100 yards without cutting a line of sight. You might find a 100 yard line of sight in a forest, but the other 358 degrees round you, you will not be able to see that far. You are not Ahnold, you really need to see something to hit it! This is a fun argument, you guys are wrong, BTW.
That is 4.1 years of 8 hour days, every single day, in the woods. I'm calling bullshit. And while there are some dense areas that you don't have that distance in when you're standing down in the middle of it, invariable you move not that far away to slightly higher ground, and you get that kind of distance. My experience is in the mountains in BC, and the hardwood forests of Ontario. Hundreds of hours (but not 4.1 years) over 30 years of slogging through woods and along streams fly fishing, and hunting deer, moose, and bear. So yeah, if you have time to prep before any Wild Kingdom Battle Royale, and you get to pick your defensive location, then it's a no-brainer... man would win. And you're the one who is wrong. And that mini-gun was just to clear the brush, making shooting lanes for the .50 cal.
4.1 out of 10+ years sounds about right, started working summers for my Dad when I was 14. Working in the woods IS the job when you do big boundary surveys, stake high power transmission lines through the mountains and such.
Net and I were repping back and forth about flare guns and bears so I figured I'd post one of the videos I was talking about publicly. These guys cut close. Flare fence.
Well then you obviously went through the wrong woods. In all seriousness, though, (yeah right, "seriousness"), walking along the ground to survey woods is not at all the same thing as setting up for defensive action. I've amateur-surveyed a few hunting plots with GPS and compass, straight-lining it down through some seriously thick underbrush that you couldn't see 5 yards in... for sure. But when I went hunting in that area, that's not where I set up... I set up to the side, on a hill, looking down into that area... or I set up a tree stand. Or I went to a spot that had more clearance and shooting distance. Or I spent hours clearing out the area to make things more visible. It's not like you ever just chose the worst spot and set up there... you adapted to the environment, or adapted the environment to you, in order to give yourself the best options. Why would we not do the same thing in this scenario? It's been a recognized element of winning for thousands of years. Sun Tzu... Art Of War... Chapter 10: Terrain.
OK... my "flare gun? what about forest fires!" rep is a bit of a non-issue, it seems... but so is your "can't see 100 yards" . HA. But talk about some fucking idiots... "aren't they cute!" It was pretty irresponsible of them to let the bears get that close in the first place, if you ask me.
Sure, you can find some shooting lanes that are 100 yards long. The only way you see for 100 yards a full 360 degrees is in a mowed field. The more vegetation, the less the gun will defend your position.
Yes, but in this situation, you're not picking and choosing your shots like you are in hunting, you can go nuts at motion/sound. Regardless of terrain, I have no doubt you could set up a defensive position that will give you the edge over the rushing horde. Again, elevation... set up a platform in the trees, so you're above the vegetation. At that point your biggest concerns are the gorillas, followed by the big cats, because they can climb trees. Double-fisting a couple of Desert Eagle .50 SE and they should be handled... and they ain't going anywhere but down. Then everything else becomes a "plinking" game. Or they come to you: