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My first job out of college required that I spend a few months in various parts Alaska and then a few months in parts of west to east Montana each year, spring, summer, fall and winter.
I carried a DW in Alaska with the 300 grain Barnes loads made for bear protection. Bought them in Anchorage. Claimed 1400 fps IIRC. I still have them and that is what I would carry if I thought I needed them.
I spent some off-work hours hiking/camping on the Kenai and tromping around Ketchikan and Fairbanks and Denali. I've hunted all over WA and Oregon state. Been through Idaho a few times. Spent some time in GNP in Montana. Been to Yellowstone. Been in the Sierras.
I have never seen any kind of bear, brown or black, in the wild.
On the Kenai I both black and brown bear tracks on the trail, but never saw a bear.
I saw lots of moose, some mtn. goats and sheep, ptarmigan, but no bears.
I never got farther north than Fairbanks - someone else in my group went to Barrow a few times, not in the winter, so he had to be careful about polar bears.
On Elmendorf we would get warnings from time to time about bears that were seen on base, but I never saw any.
I know I have black bears come on my property - I have seen their scat and neighbors have seen the bears and cougars crossing the road, and one cougar mom with a cub taking in some sun in a field adjacent to my property. So I know they are out there, I just have not been lucky enough to ever see them.
I think we have a feral dog that someone dumped recently - seen it on the road, and last week saw it getting into a neighbors garbage. If I see it again I may call animal control. I consider feral dogs probably the most dangerous thing up here on the mountain.
I carried a DW in Alaska with the 300 grain Barnes loads made for bear protection. Bought them in Anchorage. Claimed 1400 fps IIRC. I still have them and that is what I would carry if I thought I needed them.
I spent some off-work hours hiking/camping on the Kenai and tromping around Ketchikan and Fairbanks and Denali. I've hunted all over WA and Oregon state. Been through Idaho a few times. Spent some time in GNP in Montana. Been to Yellowstone. Been in the Sierras.
I have never seen any kind of bear, brown or black, in the wild.
On the Kenai I both black and brown bear tracks on the trail, but never saw a bear.
I saw lots of moose, some mtn. goats and sheep, ptarmigan, but no bears.
I never got farther north than Fairbanks - someone else in my group went to Barrow a few times, not in the winter, so he had to be careful about polar bears.
On Elmendorf we would get warnings from time to time about bears that were seen on base, but I never saw any.
I know I have black bears come on my property - I have seen their scat and neighbors have seen the bears and cougars crossing the road, and one cougar mom with a cub taking in some sun in a field adjacent to my property. So I know they are out there, I just have not been lucky enough to ever see them.
I think we have a feral dog that someone dumped recently - seen it on the road, and last week saw it getting into a neighbors garbage. If I see it again I may call animal control. I consider feral dogs probably the most dangerous thing up here on the mountain.