On 7/17/2013 11:21 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
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.
Sure, why not?
Although if you're really going for Hollywood Indian style, I think
you're required to hang off of one side of the bicycle & shoot through
the gap between the front forks & the frame.
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)?
I think maybe Calgary still has one.
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.
My experience with handguns is somewhat limited.
When I first joined the National Guard I was in an aviation unit & the
issue side arm was a S&W .38 cal revolver. Revolvers don't eject spent
brass that might lodge in a UH-1's rudder pedal linkages. By the time
they had been handed down to our level the lands & groves were pretty
much shot out.
Imagine a .40 SMOOTH-BORE chambered for .38 Special ammo. There was so
much blow-by once the smoke cleared you could SEE the rounds going down
range. I think you could have done more damage throwing the bullets at
the target.
That was early days implementing the "Total Army" concept & the Pentagon
hadn't quite got the message yet.
I transferred out of the aviation unit when we got back from Desert
Storm in order to get promoted. The side arm my new unit was equipped
with was the "Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1" [see "How to Shoot
Yourself in the Foot using COBOL].
I once hit a 50 meter target in competition with the M1911A1, which put
me in second place. The guy who beat me out hit the 50 meter target twice.
We got the Beretta M9 in the mid-90s. That's what I carried inside the
FOB in Iraq. Outside the berm, I carried a M16A2 AND the M9. I'm a
better shot with the M16, but the M9 is handier if you should find
yourself in a situation where you need to retreat from a close
confinement & you want to discourage bad guys from following you.
I don't own any guns here at home. I hope our society never deteriorates
to the point where I think I need to own one. I've got the typical geek's
appreciation for toys that make loud noises, but if I ever get the
yearning to go shooting again, I know where to find the local dealer who
has a range. No problem renting a lane for an hour or so.
Actually, I know an indoor range down near Ft. Bragg that has slightly more
exotic toys for rent.
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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Subject: Re: OT: wolf chases bike
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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