http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/19/cougar-attack-in-washington-kills-1-biker-injures-another.html
Smh...I think this meme covers my thoughts on this event...
Smh...I think this meme covers my thoughts on this event...
Apparently...in Seattle it is.A dude wearing spandex riding a bicycle is not a biker.
Apparently...in Seattle it is.
Exactly.you go into the woods, stay vigilant, and carry a gun.
i love the people who claim "Man is the top of the food chain"......because you instantly know they have never spent any time in the real outdoors.....where there are actual predators.
humans are slow, weak, thin skinned, have no natural weapons, and we turn into idiots when scared.......its truly amazing weve made it as long as we have.
mans only benefit is we can make and use tools......put us in a situation where we dont have or cant make tools, and we are about as dangerous as a woodchuck.
you go into the woods, stay vigilant, and carry a gun.
Sometimes as in the Legends of the Fall movie, it's your turn to get to die a good death, hopefully bringing a new pet with you as an escort to the next world.
Sometimes as in the Legends of the Fall movie, it's your turn to get to die a good death, hopefully bringing a new pet with you as an escort to the next world.
Mattis didn't say that, Tomi Larhen did. It was millennials serving under him slaying Iraqis by the thousands that dubbed him "Maddog".
Not to split hairs, but millennials are typically classified as born '81-'96, putting the early part of the generation at 20 y/o when 9/11 went down, and 22 when Iraqi Freedom launched. Half of active duty enlisted are <25 y/o, so that generation were the dominating generation occupying the ranks of Privates-Sergeants from the beginning of GWOT to the end of the surges in both main theaters, and are now the senior enlisted and field grade officers with some even eying retirement. My anti-armor section I took into Afghanistan in 2001 had three members who were born in the '70s, me and my two heavy weapons squad leaders, the rest were happy to pull into European ports were they were finally legal to drink.Well actually it was the last half of the Gen X-ers that did the bulk of the fighting, millennials are fairly new to the war. Those millennials that are serving I'll give them the respect due but its relatively calm now compared to what it was over 10+ years ago.
Makes sense.
the Man eaters of Tsavo should be a required read for anyone in cat country...
between these cats....and the alien predators from the Schwarzenegger film.........ide take my chances with the aliens
Millennial here in WA. Went elk hunting last year during muzzleloader season, had an "echo" to my steps early one morning heading into the stand. Made me on edge that day. Next morning found a cougar staring at me from the bottom of my stand after it spooked a couple spikes that ran into the clearing and I had left my glock 20 in my pack at the bottom of the stand. Thank the powers that be that my muzzleloader went off in the wet weather and that I hit. I'll be keeping that sidearm with me at all times now. Pic because "or it didn't happen" and face blacked out because I would probably have a tough time getting a job in this state if this got around too much with my identity. She was just a small two year old around 100 pounds but still enough to give me the shakes up close and personal.
do not under estimate the bob cat either. the first time I saw one in the powder snow in the u.p. of MI. silent stalker sharp eye'd with bionic hearing. all I did was blink and she locked on to me eye to eye at about 30 yrds. away. felt the hair on my body push all my winter hunting clothes away. something about looking a cat in the eyes on their own turf, looked a tiger in the eyes at this little walk through zoo in birch run area, he, she, it, was inside a chain link cage about 30 yrds. away also, those tiger eyes look through you like an x-ray watching your heart beat real time, so there I stand, top of the food chain,no gun, just standing looking eye to eye with nothing but a chain link fence cage between my life and his natural born instinctive power, that is one impressive,humbling, shit your pants moments when you realize you aint jack shit without big guns. the size of a tiger up close is scary to say the least. it's fucking massive, the head, body, and those paws, as it walks back and forth slowly looking straight through you. needless to say my wife, grandson and I left the area, seeing them on them on the t.v. is a joke, in the eye, you literally feel like a helpless little mouse.
the Man eaters of Tsavo should be a required read for anyone in cat country...
between these cats....and the alien predators from the Schwarzenegger film.........ide take my chances with the aliens
You go in wild places, swim in the ocean and such you have voluntarily entered the food chain. Amazing how few people figure that out.
Big cats or big bears up close and personal are fearsome. Fuckers look at you like you owe them money.
We go down Cape Cod every summer.
The area has become very "Fishy".
If Im not in the water trying my luck Im in my chair with a set of binos scanning the shadows that swim the shore line.
All Ive seen is the 8-10 foot long gray seals and a fin I believe to have been a Moa or a Yellowfin but we have been called from the water and the tagging boat usually works the beaches were we swim - Wellfleet.
Its only a mtter of time before someone get chomped out there. a few years ago a guy had his foot tasted and last year a paddle boarder lost his board. Guns are kind of tough to keep at the ready when you are treading water.
All the food was in the truck FYI.
Makes sense.