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bjrogg:
Usually the one giving it has already paid for it
Bjrogg

Hawkdancer:
The wood shaving, brain cooking, bullet making, etc. all occur in the garage!  Only spot with enough room for the harp is in the bedroom, not enough finger dexterity to play the penny whistle.  Little Fiddle Woman has her teaching/practice/recording studio, and art room in the lower level/basement.  I get a gun/reloading/Exercycle room!  (lol) Luckily, I don't hunt bears, though; I follow the Apache line of thought.  Like Pat said, make sure your insurance is paid up!  As a Hunter Ed Instructor, we teach never hunt alone,  and leave map grid locations of the hunt area.  Good luck!
Hawkdancer

WhistlingBadger:
I don't hunt bears either, but that wouldn't stop them from hunting me.  The vast majority are way too smart to mess with people, but once in a while you get that one in a thousand.  I know hunting alone isn't the safest way to do it, but IMO it's the best.  Sometimes there are bigger factors than safety.  I do carry a SPOT that let's me send "I'm OK" messages, so that has cut down on the marital strife a bit.  It also tracks my location, which should make finding me a little less inconvenient when I do cash in my chips..

Mesophilic:
I do alot of solo hunting as well.

For bears I CCW a 10mm pistol with full power loads.  If 17 rounds of Buffalo Bore don't stop him then I'm  not sure what will.  I also installed a ported barrel, you definately feel the recoil but the muzzle flip is nill alowing for faster follow up shots.  I know, not very primative,  but neither is the cell phone I use to send peridoc smoke signal updates to the wife.

Now if the bear jumps me from behind unawares,  well, it's a much better way to go than drowning, burning, skidding off a cliff, or cancer.  All of which top my list of ways I don't want to go to the next life.

WhistlingBadger:
Yeah, I'm with you there, Meso.  I used to have a t-shirt that said, "You could fall off a cliff and die.  You could get mauled by a bear and die.
 You could run out of food and die.  Or you could stay home and have a heart attack on the couch and die."  Words to live by.  I tend to believe that, while God does allow nature to take its course and reward uncommon stupidity, panic, or carelessness with the logical consequences thereof, most of the time people die when their time comes.  Might as well live your life at peace with that.

Still, ordinary caution is always a good idea.  I always tell a couple people where I am and when I'll be returning.  I always carry my SPOT, a first-aid kit, multiple fire-starters, an emergency bivy, and a few GUs for a burst of energy if I get cold, hurt, or otherwise in trouble.  All that stuff only adds up to about a pound and a half, and any one of them could be a life-saver, so it's all worth carrying.

I also carry two bear sprays, both on my belt and easy to get at.  They say sometimes the initial charge knocks one out of your hand, so a spare is good insurance.  We don't have a lot of griz down here in the Southern Winds yet, but up around Dubois they're a real problem, so it's just a matter of time.

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