Re: Rifle advice needed
My brothers friend & neighbor, if you can call him that by city standards, it is the next house but about two miles away. It is pretty remote to say the least.
Has used his (12ga. w/Slug) twice in the last two years.
The first time his wife was in the kitchen cooking, he was on the computer in the living room and his two little girls were watching TV. They screamed and he turned to see a bear at the sliding glass screen door. A second later there was no more door. Two seconds after that, there was a bear laying in the living room.
The second time was about a year later. They were eating dinner and a man appeared at the kitchen window looking very strange.
Long story short version.
Telephone call to the Sheriff. Man breaks kitchen window. Threatens family. Comes around to the before mentioned sliding glass door, throws a brick through the door and opens it. Sheriff's department still on the phone, response time, estimated 30 to 40 minutes. Man threatens family with handgun, sheriff says shoot. That was the last of his threats. He had escaped during a remote “Meth Lab” raid into the forest three days before, was listed as armed & dangerous, and had a long line of prior convictions.
I'll spare the details, but I will say the girls were tramatised, and the family moved closer to town.
They still have the land, but now rent the house out.
We have bears on our land, have no problem with them, and are glad they are there. That is why we have it, nature you know & all that stuff, but we are cautious. No garbage is ever put outside, every trip to town is a garbage run. If they want to eat, they have to eat what nature supplies.
The problem bears are problems, because not all our neighbors are aware that they teach the animals bad habits by suppling them with a regular dinner.
The more the city moves in our direction, the more problems we have. “Meth Lab Chemist” & “Town Home Environmentalist”.
If you live in a remote area, you have to come to grips with the fact you are on your own, at least in the short term, and long term help is often too little, too late.
