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<blockquote data-quote="mnoland30" data-source="post: 2331727" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>Read Ray Jardin's book "Beyond Backpacking". I can spend the night in a light bivy under a tarp tent for about 6 lbs. added to my hunting pack. I use a Personal Locator Beacon ($250 and no subscription). I've hunted by myself for years and did it again last week. I'll be 68 this week. A dog will go **** off a bear or a herd of javelina and then run back to you for protection. Or it will find a skunk or porcupine. Ask me how I know. Tie your food up in a tree away from your camp and the bears generally won't bother you, especially if you're off the beaten trail, and not camping in the bottom where they tend to travel. I did have a cougar watch me cleaning my deer once. I didn't see him because i had slipped on some moss and landed my butt in a prickly pear. I was standing there with my pants down around my knees picking out spines when I caught his eyes with my headlamp. I was 10' from my rifle. I fired a round between his ears, and he leaped about 8' in the air and took off. I jacked another round into my rifle so fast that I never found the ejected shell, even when I went back for the rest of the meat. When I go back for meat, I carry my 11 oz. .357 S&W revolver. I've never used it, but when a bear found my elk before I did, it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling as I was butchering the elk, and looking over my shoulder. As wolf packs get bigger and bigger, they become much more dangerous. You'll want an AR-15 and 30 round mags then. As long as predators are hunted, they are less dangerous to man.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mnoland30, post: 2331727, member: 29323"] Read Ray Jardin's book "Beyond Backpacking". I can spend the night in a light bivy under a tarp tent for about 6 lbs. added to my hunting pack. I use a Personal Locator Beacon ($250 and no subscription). I've hunted by myself for years and did it again last week. I'll be 68 this week. A dog will go **** off a bear or a herd of javelina and then run back to you for protection. Or it will find a skunk or porcupine. Ask me how I know. Tie your food up in a tree away from your camp and the bears generally won't bother you, especially if you're off the beaten trail, and not camping in the bottom where they tend to travel. I did have a cougar watch me cleaning my deer once. I didn't see him because i had slipped on some moss and landed my butt in a prickly pear. I was standing there with my pants down around my knees picking out spines when I caught his eyes with my headlamp. I was 10' from my rifle. I fired a round between his ears, and he leaped about 8' in the air and took off. I jacked another round into my rifle so fast that I never found the ejected shell, even when I went back for the rest of the meat. When I go back for meat, I carry my 11 oz. .357 S&W revolver. I've never used it, but when a bear found my elk before I did, it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling as I was butchering the elk, and looking over my shoulder. As wolf packs get bigger and bigger, they become much more dangerous. You'll want an AR-15 and 30 round mags then. As long as predators are hunted, they are less dangerous to man. [/QUOTE]
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