Well, that family was out bird watching, using a terrestrial telescope. This seemed to be of some help, in fighting of a terrestrial bear. I live in La Sal, near Moab, and so I feel safer having an astronomical telescope... to protect me from extraterrestrial bears... Actually, on those few occasions that I do bring my telescope out, I bring my loaded 12-Gauge shotgun out, also. I have seen a bear behind my cabin, and I once scared off a mountain lion when I stepped out onto my porch to look at the late-night sky... )
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:19 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Man fights off bear with telescope
You can identify brown bears by their scat. Typically the droppings contain bear repellent canisters.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
I'm kinda surprised that he didn't have a Smith & Wesson refractor. What kind of wildlife biologist goes into bear county without repellent or at least a large caliber weapon?
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