I betcha it would flip if you stacked all your firearms on one side...
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I betcha it would flip if you stacked all your firearms on one side...
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Originally Posted by LowKey
Yea, I'm going to hate it when that happens.
She's not even 4 months old yet (July 4th) and is 32 lbs.
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Weighed Maari today. She turned 4 months old on the 4th of July. She's 36 lbs. Yea, it's getting a bit fun to weigh her as she's all wiggly legs.
Took this tonight about 10 pm. This is the Alaska Range. At the end of this range to the right is Denali (or Mt. McKinley). It was visible due to the clouds but the rest of the range was gorgeous.
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This is about 4:30 am yesterday. Crummy cell phone pictures.
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Aaaand a rare picture of my 15 year old and his neck beard! Gads I hope that thing grows in a bit more....
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Awesome view of the Alaska range.
Hey look at what I scored today for free. I needed a tie out rope for the canoe. Now, if it would stop raining enough for our rivers to get out of flood stage level, I could take it out!
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I normally wouldn't post a picture of myself like this or messy house but wanted to show how big she is in perspective.
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From a little cabin in Alaska, where cook books and hammers DO belong on the same shelf.
She's getting big.......and aliens have taken over her eyes.
That pup ain't a pup. She has grown.
Wow great pic of you both! I must have missed it - what Breed?
Half Great Pyrenees and part Black Lab/Golden Retriever.
LOL, A LAP DOG.....Way to go Mom......
Great pic ......thanks for posting.
Guess we are just not going to have a summer this year. Boo. It hit 40 last night. I had just found a bunch of plants at Lowes for a dollar each. I brought them in last night.
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Planning my big summer trip for early next month. Going to do the Women's Salmon Fishing Derby down in Valdez, then go zip lining on my way back. Yay for fun.
That's going to be a heck of a long zip line to get you all the way back from Valdez.:whistling:
Heh, that would be awesome! The zipline's in Talkeetna.
The bears have been really busy this summer.
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Soldier attacked by grizzly in second JBER mauling this summer
Michelle Theriault Boots|
July 20, 2014
A National Guard soldier was mauled by a brown bear on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson while participating in a training exercise Sunday morning, officials said. A JBER release said the soldier was mauled by a sow defending her cubs -- the second such attack in just more than two months on the Anchorage base.
The soldier was in stable condition as of Sunday afternoon. His name had not yet been released.
The Alaska Army National Guard soldier was a participant in a daylong “land navigation exercise,” said Alaska National Guard spokeswoman Maj. Candis Olmstead. During the exercise, soldiers are given a compass and map and are timed as they navigate alone to hidden locations on the course.
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At about 11:45 a.m. the soldier was traveling through the woods when he encountered a sow with two cubs, Olmstead said.
“He dropped to the ground, covered his head and remained still,” she said.
The bear approached him, biting and “swatting” at him. After about 30 seconds, the bear retreated and the soldier blew a safety whistle, alerting medics stationed nearby, she said.
Olmstead said the soldier was not armed at the time of the attack. She said she did not know if he was carrying bear spray.
The soldier was taken to the base hospital for treatment.
Details about the location and circumstances of the mauling were scarce Sunday; Olmstead said she could not say where exactly on base the soldier encountered the bear or answer questions about JBER wildlife activity and management.
A call to a JBER spokeswoman was not returned Sunday.
Just more than two months ago, Jessica Gamboa was jogging on a JBER trail when she was mauled by a brown bear sow, also apparently defending cubs.
After the attack, Gamboa walked bleeding from slashes on her arms and head more than a mile uphill to the highway where her pickup truck was parked, Alaska Dispatch News reported at the time.
It’s not clear what happened to the brown bear believed to have attacked Gamboa.
Earlier this month, runner Suzanna Knudsen was mauled when she came upon a sow with cubs in Bird Valley, just south of Anchorage.
Didn't I just say the bears are busy this summer?
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Eagle River man shoots, kills brown bear that mauled him
Tegan Hanlon
July 24, 2014
An Eagle River man shot and killed a brown bear sow Thursday after the animal mauled him near his home, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The man, who has not been identified, said he was walking with his unleashed dogs on a dirt road off of Hiland Road, an area biologists described as well-known bear territory. His dogs wandered away and when they ran back toward the man, they were trailed by a brown bear sow, said Dave Battle, an assistant area wildlife biologist with Fish and Game.
"This is not in an Anchorage subdivision," Battle said. "This is out in the big woods."
Battle said the sow attacked the man, who in turn fired at it three times with a .44 Magnum.
"The last time, I think, he got it through the lung," Battle said. "It ran back into the alders and he could hear it wheezing."
The man's wife drove him to the hospital. Battle said he did not know the extent of the man's injuries.
Fish and Game, troopers and a park ranger located the bear carcass Thursday afternoon. Battle said the nearly 200-pound sow -- small for a brown bear -- was lactating. He said the man reported seeing a cub, but one was not found.
This is the second brown bear attack in the area in less than a week and the fourth on the outskirts of Anchorage in just over two months.
On Sunday, a National Guard soldier was mauled by a brown bear sow defending its cubs on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The soldier was participating in a training exercise when he came across the bear in the woods. He dropped to the ground and didn't move as the bear approached, bit and swatted him.
About two months ago, another bear attack occurred on JBER. A brown bear sow with two cubs ran out of the woods near an unpaved road where Jessica Gamboa was jogging. The woman suffered serious injuries.
Runner Suzanne Knudsen was attacked by a sow with two nearly grown cubs in early July in Bird Valley, south of Anchorage. She was flown to the hospital with serious injuries.
I don't know 'bout the rest of you but the time to shoot a grizzly is BEFORE it mauls you not after.
I live in a part of Alaska with no brown bears, and I'm okay with that.
You don't have them there? Well, learn something new every day.
Nope, no grizzys here! Islands crawling with black bears though. The "ABC" islands north of us (Admiralty, Baronof and Chichigof) are highly populated with brown bears, and bones have been found here in Prince Of Wales but no live ones for a long time.
Ah. Well black bears can be pretty darn problematic. They seem like they can have a bear chip on their shoulder lol.
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At least they are tasty!
Not too hot on shiny but it's an upgrade from the one he originally got me that was too big to fit. Ok, I'm ready to go hunting now. Well, I need to put my new sling on and get some covers for my scope.
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Ah, another porch hunter......cool.
See those willows in the background across the road? Moose LOVE those. In the winter especially when they can walk on the road so they don't have to walk in the deep snow. Eh but no. There is a little road on the other side of those and a couple of families live down there. So I wouldn't shoot them from the porch.
So maybe set yourself up in a blind parallel to the road?
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Black bears are tasty?
I have a buddy who's place is over run with them, he's counted 6 repeat visitors so far this summer.
Maybe there's a WMA near there...hmmmm....
Unfortunately they are "pets." Not pets in the kept-and-fed sense but they all have names.
Kinda like the one time my grandpa named a spring steer. All winter long he would turn pale and lose his appetite if someone said, "We're having John for supper tonight."
"Never name anything you plan on eating some day"...
That why cattle have ear number tags....easier to eat a number.
If you have to shoot a nuisance bear, you don't actually get to keep it. You have to turn it in to Fish and Game. But if you have a bear tag, and one just happens to come along... Yes black bear is tasty. Especially the interior ones who are eating blueberries vs. the southern ones who are eating salmon.
Ugh, then the ones up here will taste awful. They eat mostly garbage from cans and whatever people are feeding the birds in their feeders.
Yea those wouldn't be tasty!
I'm going to quote my friend Lori as it was the most hilarious thing and I wish I had video.
Her ear protection literally FLEW off her head. The look on her face was priceless! All in all, I am in LOVE with my 30-06. It's dang heavy but man it is a pleasure to shoot. Recoil's not that bad and it is just so much power. The kids loved shooting the .22s they got for Christmas. I also shot my .357 which is just plain fun. Then we all went out to dinner. Came home, took the dog for a nice little run, now we are off to the movies.Quote:
Most excellent and fun afternoon shooting guns with Georganne and her kids! G let me shoot her 30.06! WOWSA. The first shot literally knocked my ear protection off. I am serious. they flew right off my head. I looked at her and said "WHAT THEEEEEEEEEEE heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell happened......." in disbelief. LOLOLOL It was funny but ya wanna talk about immediate respect for a firearm. Holy **** that was a reminder to never underestimate what you have your hands!! It was also the first time I had shot my new gun and it jammed to many times for my comfort since its the gun I carry for work.. I'm gonna try taking it apart and oiling it up real good.And then a late lunch/early dinner at Gallos to celebrate Jordan's birthday! I need more Saturdays like this cause it sure beats sleeping the day away! All in all a day that needs repeated!
Pictures to come later.
Is her work gun an auto handgun? She may be limp wristing it if it is. Tell her to lock her wrist. I seem to remember she's in a remote camp(?) If it's a long gun she might want to change ammo and see if it still does it. Post the kind of weapon it is. With the gun gurus on here I'm sure they can lay hands on it and heal it.
This is one of my local girl friends, not Susan who lives remote. I'll go see what gun she has as I don't remember. Oh yea, it's a Glock.
I think it was jamming because it was brand new and needed oiling or (and now that I think of it, more probable,) she was shooting reloads.
I was taking pictures with Lori's camera and kind of caught it when her hearing protection flew off her head when she shot my gun. It was so hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
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What? All 16 year old boys don't want to just go shooting for their birthdays?
Everyone needs to put their weight more forward to help mitigate recoil. The rocks scare me at that range. You'll eventually catch rock or fragments of bullet or bullets.
I could be wrong on the rocks. But, I have been hit by both.
Thanks. We'll work on that. I thought about the rocks too but lots of people go here to shoot. Guess we can go into town and go to the actual range. Yuck though. I don't like shooting around people I don't know.
Oooh. Safety glasses. You just never know.
Looks like a awesome fun time.