Guess I'll start an off-topic thread?

[Cannonball]

I still have an old Tennessee Thumper Slow Pitch Softball Bat that I could contribute to that concoction. LOL

 

[Cannonball]

Happy Father's Day to all of you. We have all been Blessed to have dds who play this great game and we get to go along for the ride.

 

[Westwind]

More proof that SRV was once the coolest man alive.

 

[BigSkyHi]

June 30th, half-way to New Year's party. Confused if I should count up or count down.

 

[Westwind]

I’m headed to brown bear country! I’m really not all that much of a “gun guy” because I hate owning a gun that doesn’t have a purpose. That said, I haven’t been happy with the mouse gun (G-17 9mm) that I have been carrying at work. (At my previous job it was a G-22 .40 cal.)

I decided that I wasn’t going to go out and buy a large cal revolver just for this trip. I DID use this as an opportunity to go pick up a G-20 10mm. Also ordered some hard cast bullets from Buffalo Bore. (Highly recommend btw. Great customer service!!!)

I know it’s still a long way from ideal for a bear gun but I’m a believer in having something familiar in your hands during times of extreme stress. I also think I’m going to transition to 10mm for my work pistola. I shot it today and it cracks like my G-22’s did. I like it.

 

[ANNASDAD]

I’m headed to brown bear country! I’m really not all that much of a “gun guy” because I hate owning a gun that doesn’t have a purpose. That said, I haven’t been happy with the mouse gun (G-17 9mm) that I have been carrying at work. (At my previous job it was a G-22 .40 cal.)

I decided that I wasn’t going to go out and buy a large cal revolver just for this trip. I DID use this as an opportunity to go pick up a G-20 10mm. Also ordered some hard cast bullets from Buffalo Bore. (Highly recommend btw. Great customer service!!!)

I know it’s still a long way from ideal for a bear gun but I’m a believer in having something familiar in your hands during times of extreme stress. I also think I’m going to transition to 10mm for my work pistola. I shot it today and it cracks like my G-22’s did. I like it. View attachment 28334

Where you going?

That’s one very hard hitting, high performance pistol. *If* I were to wonder into Grizzly territory with a pistol instead of a revolver, a 10mm Glock with Underwood or Buffalo Bore Hard Cast would be my choice!

Have fun, be careful!

 

[_MIA_]

I’m headed to brown bear country!

Let me guess. DW suggested you get some R & R (alone) and was nice enough to pick you out a spot?

 

[LEsoftballdad]

I have always loved this brown bear meme.

 

[BigSkyHi]

 

[Westwind]

Where you going?

That’s one very hard hitting, high performance pistol. *If* I were to wonder into Grizzly territory with a pistol instead of a revolver, a 10mm Glock with Underwood or Buffalo Bore Hard Cast would be my choice!

Have fun, be careful!

It’s a mission trip- fly into Missoula and then west towards Idaho. It’s my wife’s deal, she has been several times, she usually takes one of our kids. All I know is we work about 4 days and will probably be cutting firewood or building fence for a ranch for kids who have taken some wrong turns. I don’t think we have any contact with the kids at all.

The guys that run the outside work all carry pistols all the time. Heard a story that they don’t take grizzly bears lightly at all. My nervousness is fueled by a book I read read years ago called “Death In Yellowstone” and it lists all the ways people die in the park and it usually involves tourists doing stupid stuff. Some of it was grizzly bears snatching people out of tents and running hikers down and crunching them up. I ordered “Death In Glacier, Tales of Accidents and Foolhardiness“ but havent read it yet, but I bet there are a few bear stories!

I didn‘t think to look at Underwood! The Buffalo Bore website had some good info on it.