It's easy as a trained survivalist to be a bit full of yourself. You might think you can handle just about everything and even though that's likely true, when you're hit with a pivotal survival moment your fight or flight instincts are still going to kick in.
When that moment of panic comes, it may be hard to recall the best practices that you should apply for that pivotal moment. Thoughts will be running through your mind full speed ahead and may be limited to “What should I do?!”
Sometimes you may fight and lose, but you may also decide to take flight and still lose. If only there was a third option that would provide you with a better ending!
In these four situations you may not even have considered the option of staying and fighting because if you stay you may feel that you're just going to be a sitting duck. However, in these four situations, it's probably your best bet to stay put and duke it out.
After the break, find out which survival situations you should NEVER run away from, and then watch the video and learn more as to why this is so important.
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And sometimes even if you don’t run… you may still suffer the consequences! 😀
You left out a lot of information on bear safety. If you are attacked by a brown bear the best thing to do is play dead! Cover your neck, and head area with your hands. You would be foolish to try and fight back. Get up a tree if it is a brown bear. And yes brown , and grizzly bears are the same. A grizzly is an inland bear, and a brown is a coastal bear. Brown bears are much bigger, because they eat lots of fish. Brown bears will false charge more than a black bear. Black bears mean business! If you notice one following you, then you are being hunted! Shoot it! I always carry a gun in Haines Alaska.$#%&!@*that pepper spray. Bears ate extremely fast!! And yes you do fight back with a black bear. Good luck with that one!
Bears have shorter forelegs than their hind legs. A biologist pointed out that if you are on a hillside with the proper slope you can run away from a bear. This is because the bear’s center of gravity in running down hill is forward of his front shoulders. This will likely cause the bear to tumble and roll down the hill rather than run. Once the bear rolls past you you can then pick and choose a tree to climb.
I’m seeing some really bad advice on this feed. If you’re in Bear Country carry bear mace. If not you deserve what you get. And no a gun will not save your life. It will kill you before it dies.
Burnt gunpowder makes a great bear repellent.
.50 caliber
I don’t mind .44 or .45, either.
Wes Chitwood I’ve seen .50 cal Barrett’s used in alaska
I’ve carried a 454 Casull and a 44 mag in Alaska. Either will do the job at hand. You can always shoot your fishing buddy in the knee and take off.
Wes Chitwood lol but he won’t chase after you
If I was hunting them, I’d start with a 338-378 Wby, then either 375 H&H or 416 Remington. The thing is, the 338-378 Wby hits harder than either of the big bores.
I damn sure don’t want to tote a 50 Barrett.
Big cats too.
Storm chasers run from tornados all the time…I’ve driven away from two myself that I saw while traveling on the interstate…one in Tennessee and one in Kansas. ..if I had stayed put I think I would have been killed…animal advice is good though…