OK, so you have a hungry, (but stupid wolf, because obviously it mistook
a man on a bicycle for a deer), chasing you, your survival rifle is
disassembled stored in it's stock in your backpack. Do you a.) while
riding as fast as you can, reach into your back pack, somehow extract
the rifle kit, open the stock pull out the receiver, barrel, and
magazine, screw the parts together pull back the bolt to chamber the
round and then aim, like you see all the Indians do in those 1950's
movies, two handed to shoot at the wolf? or do you stop the bicycle
first and let the wolf catch you and try to assemble the rifle while
under attack by the wolf.
A pistol can be extracted and shot one handed while you're on the bike,
but you really should travel with a bullet in the chamber, if you plan
to do that, and practice your trick shooting before hand, if, you don't
want to shoot yourself, let alone want to hit the wolf following you. I
don't even know where you could practice such a thing, maybe try to join
a Wild West Show, (are there still Wild West Shows)?
Laurence of Arabia is reputed to have shot his own camel in the head
with his service revolver during his first camel charge. Kind of
embarrassing, but the British Army didn't train officers to shoot from
charging camel back.
On 7/17/2013 10:38 AM, John wrote:
Henry Repeating Arms sells the AR-7 through Canadian dealers.
On 7/17/2013 2:14 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
They've relaxed their laws recently but I doubt they'd let a non
Canadian carry a pistol suitable for self defense against wolves. A
rifle if you had the proper hunting permit, but that seems like
something most bicyclists would eschew.
On 7/16/2013 6:17 PM, Kenneth Waller wrote:
FWIW transporting a gun thru Ca Na Da is illegal.
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On 7/16/2013 3:40 PM, Bob W wrote:
Fantastic story. Not something I've experienced commuting in London,
but we do get chased by 18-wheelers from time to time. Dead is dead.
When Dervla Murphy cycled from Ireland to India she had the good
sense to take a revolver, so when she was attacked by wolves in
Bulgaria, she shot them dead.
B
Works great if there's no more than 6 wolves in the pack.
Or did she just use the revolver to shoot a riding companion in the
knee, delaying the pack while she made her escape?
On 16 Jul 2013, at 18:29, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote:
Given that we have so many bicyclists here and given the second URL
has some up-close-and-personal shots of the wolf, I figured I'd
pass this along:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jul/11/landers-wolf-chases-sandpoint-cyclist-down-alaska/
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2013/jul/14/motorist-has-photos-wolf-chased-sandpoint-cyclist/
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