So ive been hunting for some time now and every year I get some bear action up close and personal.. a whistle is all it ever took to make them run like hell... untill last fall. l was in a brush blind when two cubs came strolling in knowing mom was close by I gave a good yell and to my surprise one ran but the other sat down to eat acorns.. I shook the brush and yelled throwing a stick which made him flinch but not move an inch... all fine until I hear noise behind me on a ridge and see mama snapping her teeth and slowley walking towards me. can't lie I was quite nervous for the first time ..sitting there with a bow in my hand I watched her pace the ridge line.. then Mom came down the ridge leaving me a small window to slip out and get some distance while out of sight... I left all my items in the blind and came back 30 min later to get my stuff.. I realized if I hadn't seen mama on the ridge she would have closed the distance and been right above me before I noticed her.. now again I don't hunt bear personally and this is probably a rare occasion... but damn ... no way to get a open carry in the woods for my personal protection??? Crazy state we live in.

You asked this question five months, the answer hasn't changed you can't carry a handgun in the woods.

 

 

Want to get a carry permit? Become a cop.

You asked this question five months, the answer hasn't changed you can't carry a handgun in the woods.

 

 

Want to get a carry permit? Become a cop.

Not to split atoms...but they don't have a carry permit either.

Not to split atoms...but they don't have a carry permit either.

Until they do something REALLY stupid, their badge is their Shield of Invulnerability.

Same thing as a carry permit here in the Glorious Republik.

Not to split atoms...but they don't have a carry permit either.

 

 

Right to carry / carry permit, substantially equivalent IMO.

You can carry in the woods on your own property, right? 

You can carry in the woods on your own property, right? 

 

Yes, as long as you own the property. 

Yes, as long as you own the property. 

 

Figured. Was worried for a second there because I'm always carrying in the woods on my own property. We have black bears and coyotes up here. 

Not to split atoms...but they don't have a carry permit either.

 

You have permission to carry. That is a "carry permit" for all intents and purposes.

With a police id card you can carry in all 50 states. The best permit that exists short of a us marshal deputy id.

 

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With a police id card you can carry in all 50 states. The best permit that exists short of a us marshal deputy id.

 

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Police id card??? Maybe dept id.. and our badge is all we need. We also need to qualify depnding on dept and job field ever 6 months to a year in nj. Now federal guys i believe qualify every 3 months.

Not to split atoms...but they don't have a carry permit either.

You say "Not to split atoms".......but then you go ahead and split atoms anyway.  

The energy required to split atoms makes it not worthwhile IMO

Sorry thought that was a different forum... lol. I was telling the story at work while readiing through forums thought I'd share the tale here...

I've been trying to become a cop... easier to get a ccw. No mil.. no available connections..... good scores but still waiting for a call. I just can't bring myself to leave Jersey it's a beautiful state minus some laws..

The energy required to split atoms makes it not worthwhile IMO

This just made me spit my tea hahahahahahaha

Seeing a bear up close can be pretty exhilarating. Let's you know you're alive.

 

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/man-describes-mauling-black-bear-195747568.html

 

Man Describes Mauling By Black Bear

 By Rachel Katz | ABC News Blogs – Tue, May 14, 2013 4:17 PM EDT

 

 

Joe Azougar was sitting on the front porch of his cabin this weekend with his new German shepherd puppy, Ace, when he "started to hear a vibration or thunder and I turned around to see a bear."

 

The next few minutes were pure mayhem and panic in which the bear killed the dog and then came back for Azougar, smashing through a cabin window to get at him and mauling him so bad that Azougar said he could feel the bear's teeth on his exposed skull.

 

Azougar, 30, spoke to ABC News from his bed in Lady Minto Hospital in Cochrane, Ontario, where doctors needed 300 stitches to patch up his scalp, shoulder and back.

 

When the bear showed up, "The first thing that the dog did was protect his master and attack the bear…I heard howling and barking," he said.

 

Azougar ran into his 8-by-16 "off-grid" cabin and began to call neighbors, alerting them on what was going on.

"As I looked around I saw him [the bear] drag my lifeless dog Ace into the bush," he said. But suddenly, the bear was back and it broke through the cabin's back window.

 

"It took my dog and then it came back to kill me. It had death in its eyes," Azougar said.

 

Azougar began throwing things at the bear, making loud sounds and stood on a chair to make himself appear larger.

"This beast was thirsty for blood. This beast wanted to destroy," said Azougar. "I figured my best chance was to run outside by the street so that someone could find me."

 

Azougar began running, but the bear caught him.

 

"He had four paws on top of me…he peeled my forehead skin to the back of my head off," he said, adding that he could feel the animal's teeth on his skull.

 

"Then, he turned me over and tried to bite my stomach and hips. That gave me just a few seconds to curl into a ball and protect my head, which exposed my arm pits and shoulder blades."

 

Azougar began kicking and punching the bear, managing to hit it in the eye. "It doesn't feel anything. It is a merciless creature," he said.

 

The bear dragged Azougar's body into a ditch. "By that time I could feel my body become lifeless," Azougar said.

 

He was saved by the arrival of two women who saw Azougar getting mauled as they were driving by. "Out of nowhere I heard a horn and these two angels saved my life," he said. The horn scared off the bear, which ran back into the woods.

 

"I said please help me, please help me… I managed to put my arm around their shoulders and walked to their car," Azougar said.

 

The women drove Azougar to the hospital. "He was two or three inches from taking out a major artery in my neck," Azougar said.

"I am just thankful to those two angels that saved me. I am thankful to the Almighty for giving me this life," he said.

 

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources said the bear was shot and killed and has been submitted for a necropsy, where officials will test to see if the bear was suffering from some type of disease.

 

"I have spoken to people who say they have lived here for 20 or 30 years and they said they have never seen anything happened like this," said Azougar.

 

Azougar had only moved to the tiny cabin to escape the busy city of Toronto a month before the incident, working from home as an online monitor for classified advertisements. He said that he plans to return to the cabin once he is released from the hospital.

 

"This has not discouraged me. I will be going back to my camp, but I think safety will be more of a concern," he said.

 

Crazy...thankful to be alive.