Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Do you carry a sidearm while hunting with your rifle?

LOL yeah I don't do it very often down here, but sometimes do. When I was in Alaska we were in an area that held a lot of Grizzlies. For some reason the guy I was with insisted on camping next to thick willows where he saw several bears in the past. We never saw one, but you never know.

There was a bowhunter attacked this year by a griz. The only thing he had to harm the bear was shoving his hand down the bears throat. It worked surprisingly.