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Nope, just some sharp sticks and a wooden bow made in 1972.

 

Nice bow. Reminds me of my Fred Bear.

 

The guy who made it worked for him back in the day.

 

No wonder everybody in Canada gets eaten by bears

 

I looked it up, there are actually quite a few cannuk bear turds out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America

 

Yea of course there is , about on par with their well armed US counterparts

and *Canuck

I know 2 guys local to me that bow hunt bears , fuck that

 

Yes our gun laws suck. However, it's not illegal to be armed in your tent in Cali, even if your from outta state.

 

One of my favorite bear stories happened over a hundred years ago. On the Oregon coast a Forest Service trail crew was putting in a hiking trail and found a human skull. The site was excavated revealing the remains of a trapper holding a rusty .54 caliber musket, and the remains of a bear with a .54 caliber ball lodged in his chest.

 

I'd rather live to defend myself in court than die being defenseless.

Not worried about bears out here, much. I don't camp in grizzly territory. I worry more about hiking into a grow field than I do about black bears.

 

What is that contraption called that you're cooking the bacon on? The triangle thing?

 

My Allpro Expos.

Does this mean I'm carrying too much weight for the springs? They look pretty flat.

I ask because I'm getting a bounce in the rear end on certain roads around my house. I'm not sure of its the 37 and fuel can on my swingout or if the springs/shocks aren't up to the task.

I know a lot of people carry similar amounts of weight. Rear bumper, swingout, Rack, RTT, tools, tool boxes, water ext. How are you dealing with the weight?

 

^^flat isn't bad. Negative arch is a problem. My EXPOS looked like that under load. My Alcans have just a touch of arch now under full load.

Like DoorDing said a progressive bump stop would help that a lot.

 

One way to test, is move the spare tire and gas can into the bed of the truck so the weight is more centered between the axles, then run the same roads where you noticed the undesired behavior.

Changing out the bump stops to a progressive one, like DoorDring is something I'd do either way. I only have experience with the super bumps, and I like them a lot.

I'm very weight conscious when it comes to mods, and I've managed to keep my truck lighter with only ~380 lbs. permanent over stock

Other general observations...
@sytfu510 put his truck on a diet going to tube bumpers and @TACODOC1 changed the rear bumper on his truck to move the spare to it's factory location (running 33" tire though), after running it on a tire gate for a number of years...

And @username cut out everything nonessential on Apacolypto to create something amazing and light weight.

 

Revalve on the shocks will take care of a lot of the undesired handling.

 

This year is probably very bad because the drought is affecting their natrual food sources.

My wife and I have backpacked and camped all over the Sierra, Inyo, and elsewhere for a decade and never had a prob. She saw one in Sequoia NP on the High Sierra trail once. We saw a juvenile in a meadow in Yosemite once. I saw one feeding on the edge of a meadow a couple hundred yards away in Kings Canyon, once.

Camp where bear boxes are provided or bring bear cans and stash them 100 ft away from camp. Put everything in them, including sunscreen and toopaste and lip balm.

Can't hang from trees anymore, they have that figured out. Yosemite is the worst, because the tourists are absolute retards and don't follow rules or procedures. I'd rather see them put down tourists rather than bears.

They test bear cans with a black bear in Folsom zoo. He is the cert lab.

We had the shit scared out of us in the middle of the night in Marble Mountain Wildeness once, but turned out we were camped on a major deer migration route. LOL.

 

I am always aware if bears are around, but I have never had a problem with them and I don't fear them. I have encountered them while armed and unarmed, but have never drawn my weapon because of animals. People is a different story.

When the wife was pregnant with our son in her third trimester we went camping and exploring all around British Columbia. We hiked through the heart of bear country in Wells Gray Park to fish the Clearwater River in the middle of nowhere. Had a black bear want to use the same eddy we were fishing. I just had to throw one rock and he was gone in a flash. Every bear I have encountered in california has been a non-issue.

 

Same here. I lived in the Colorado Rockies most of my life (in Oregon now) and never had a problem with bears that made me think I should have a weapon and I've encountered them countless times. There was a bear that came around my house every night months trying to get into my trash even though I had a bear proof can, I could just shout at it to make it leave. I feel like carrying a sidearm/shotgun into the woods for "protection" is the same as carrying a AR-15 into Walmart for protection, it might save you one day but you probably have a better chance of winning the lottery then having to/successfully killing a bear that is attacking you. Not against it, just seems silly to me.

 

I agree WRT bears. Every time I've had a bear encounter (can count on one hand) I make a lot of noise and they end up more scared than me and take off. I carry in NV for the lions.

 

Might as well share my bear story. I have encountered bears while in Yosemite at White Wolf Campground. I also encountered a Momma and her two cubs twice while hiking to and from Lukens Lake.

The Bear(s) in the campground don't give a f*** if you leave food out or not. It started at campsite #1 and used this procedure:

1. Invade campsite,
   
2. browse for human food,
3. Check picnic table,
4. Test bear locker by banging on it,
5. No food? Move to next campsite,
6. Repeat steps 1-5, until food is found.

It went in sequence from site #1 to site #7 until it found the dumb asses in site #7 who improperly closed their bear box. The bear ate everything while campers made noise. No fear. Dumb-ass campers were cited by ranger next day. I was in campsite #4 and will never forget hearing the bear (heavy breathing) < 10' from my tent.





I carry too, but it's the two legged critters I don't trust the most.

 

There is a regional aspect to bears I feel like, you're almost guaranteed to come across bears in a place like Yosemite or Yellowstone but probably not likely to be attacked. Plus if you shot a bear because it came into your camp I am sure the rangers would have something to say about it. I would really consider carrying when I go to Denali National Park and backpack for a few weeks or if I was in polar bear country. The two legged animals are far more likely to be a danger to you sadly.