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Post by King Kodiak on Sept 16, 2020 21:44:31 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Sept 7, 2021 15:21:29 GMT -5
www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/game-changers/thirteen-yards-one-second-why-you-can-never-outrun-charging-bear/?utm_medium=social&%3Futm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1x6Wp70YQLSzSh6YR_bT0nBlOKfpzvtBC90taO__shwb2_dUgI9AYQhjw Thirteen Yards in One Second: Why You Can Never Outrun a Charging Bear. If you’ve seen the movie “The Revenant,” you’ve seen the bear-attack scene. Especially for Hollywood, I think it is pretty dang realistic. When you see the bear’s head pop up, then it charges, well, that speed is no exaggeration. Bears will sometimes charge extremely fast. In a piece I did last year talking about a sow grizzly that charged my buddy Nick and me, we calculated that she covered 13 yards in less than a second. Bears, whether they are black or brown, are extremely fast and powerful animals, much more than we often realize or give them credit for. Now that the bears are out, it’s time to carry not only some form of bear protection, whether its bear spray or a firearm, but also to keep yourself in a cautious mindset and pay attention to your surroundings. The best thing you can do is try to prevent a situation like that in the first place. Bob told me that he doesn’t have nightmares from the attack, and it doesn’t keep him from hiking and enjoying the outdoors, and although he won’t be leaving his bear spray anymore, the biggest thing is that he is much more cautious and aware of his surroundings. I hope everyone is out enjoying spring in the outdoors, but always remember that a dangerous situation could be waiting right over the next rise in the trail.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 2:28:38 GMT -5
One example of speed happened in Finland in 2014. A woman was riding in the woods. Horse was Arabian, so a fast horse. Rider was surprised, when horse was walking and suddenly started to act nervously, rider watched to the rock nearby and saw something brown, she thought that it was root ball of a tree, but then that brown mass started to move and she understood, that it was a bear. Bear raised to hind legs and rider guided her horse to walk to the path nearby leading to the forest road right beside it. When they got to the road, she watched behind and saw, that the bear had started to follow them and was galloping fast. She panicked and encouraged her horse to gallop right away too to escape. She saw how the bear got so close, that its snout was side by side with hind legs of the horse and she was afraid, that the bear might be able to hit (etc.) hind legs of the horse and make it fall. She urged her horse to gallop even faster and finally after a kilometer (1 km=1093,5 yards) of chasing, bear gave up. She told, that their speed was terribly fast and she had to do all she could to stay on her horse, they were running downhill making everything even more difficult for her. Bear had head low, ears back and she told, that it ran extremely fast speed. Well, it´s easy to understand when it could follow a galloping horse that good. This article in Finnish tells the story: www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/2014102918790399
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Post by brobear on Dec 12, 2022 2:42:42 GMT -5
DID YOU KNOW..? "A CHARGING GRIZZLY OR BROWN BEAR CAN REACH UP TO SPEEDS OF 30-35 mph.. AT FULL GAIT THAT TRANSLATES INTO ABOUT 44 - 51 FEET PER SECOND..!!"
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