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Assuming the officer knows a pistol from a revolver, I'm curious as what it was.
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44 Mag revolver is what I heard, emptied it all 6 shots.
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The important take-away from this story is in the comments... Kodiak had used communal dumpsters for garbage collection for ever. They are bear-proof and the bears do not get into the habit of expecting free food from them.
Alaska Waste "demanded" the city go to individual rolling collection bins that are anything but bear-proof. As a result the bears have quickly learned there are lots of free lunches. The city insisted people wait until the morning of collection before putting out their garbage so at least one bear figured out the easy lunch was behind door number 1... a garage door is no match for a modest Kodiak bear on a mission.
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That's right... we used dumpsters happily for 6 years , our last year there we had to use the "bear resistant" plastic bins... we called them barely resistant cans. we were not even in the city but service district 1 also was included in that fiasco...
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Anchorage has the same thing, and they are a joke. Some jackass riveted a few pieces of steel and a latch to a plastic garbage can and called it bear-proof. Had they taken another 2 minutes per container, you could probably even get the damn thing closed.
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These were just little guys judging from the claw marks on the walls where they went through the windows... Nor were these northern coastal browns even Kodiaks... The rule about keeping out “honest visitors” does not apply to bears where doors and locks are concerned. Evidently the can of spray foam was such a great experience that one critter needed to try another “popper”...
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Cabin Bears need antifreeze, they might get cold this winter!
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In that regard the bears that ‘did’ this cabin tried, besides oven cleaner and spray foam, Aqua-Chem (the nasty blue formaldehyde laden toilet chemical), fire extinguisher, PAM, and bunch of other stuff. I have seen nothing that bears won’t try including two-cycle oil, Blazo (white gas/naphtha), starting fluid (ether; that would have been fun to see perhaps!).
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Shot number six must have involved a bit of pucker factor That would be his annual stress test, for sure. Steve
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According to the article 7 shots were fired.
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Looks like six shots to me.
[quote]It all happened in really tight quarters," he said. "He shot at it five times before it finally stopped and then once it was on the ground, it was still moving. So he shot it one more time and then it died."/quote]
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(Evidently the can of spray foam was such a great experience that one critter needed to try another “popper”... laugh)
On a cabin brown bear near Skwetna it bit into spray foam cans then tore the cabin apart cant imagine any thing worse to get off gums and lips! The favorite thing seemed to be was Yashitas gormet sauce!
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