How to tell if you a REAL photographer
Jun 17, 2018 10:25:30 #
Definitely the camera senseless to kill animals that you are not going to eat
Jun 17, 2018 13:01:31 #
Jun 17, 2018 16:05:15 #
snapshot18 wrote:
Bill_de:
Ever try to photograph a Diamondback at 'Eye level' (and with a 28mm lens?)
Ever try to photograph a Diamondback at 'Eye level' (and with a 28mm lens?)
Was that not a timber rattlesnake?
Jun 18, 2018 09:34:14 #
Jun 18, 2018 12:50:46 #
Mike Fos wrote:
Shot gun won't stop a bear. Stick with the camera!
Depends on what it is loaded with. A short barreled shotgun for carry in bear country is generally loaded with a mix of buck shot and slugs, or just slugs. A 12 GA 50 caliber sabot slug will punch through a 14"+ pine tree at close range.
I used to know a guy who owned an Inn/Restaurant in the San Gabriel Mtns when I lived in Azusa at the edge of the mountains. His kitchen crew freaked because bears used to dumpster dive the garbage and one even stuck it's head in the back door once. So he got a short barreled, pistol grip defensive shotgun, loaded it with the 50 cal sabot slugs and just to calm them down he shot one round into a 14" pine tree being cut down for a new paved walkway. The sabot slug went in and blew a 4" wide exit hole on the far side then disappeared somewhere into the woods. He taught all the kitchen crew to shoot, put on a reinforced screen door to slow a hostile bear down and a rack for the shotgun in the kitchen. Then as part of the new paved walk he poured a slab and put a chain link fence around the dumpsters.
Result, calm kitchen crew.
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