chainsaw as a self defense weapon

[miko0618]

first off, I don't know where to post this so i'll put er here.

I was on vacation last week camping in potter county PA. its a place we go every year same time. theres always bears circling the campground but they never come in. if they do, they are relocated. this year we had 3 in our site. 1 was last years cub and it had no fear of humans. it was chewing on a cooler. we tried screaming, banging stuff and it wasn't til I hit the panic button on my truck that it even looked up. I had a 180 and my 192t with me for fetchin firewood. I slept with the 192t in my tent switched on. it has a ported muffler where as my 180 is stock. I figured it would have to scare a bear. I never got the chance to try it. it got me thinking though, what if it did charge? I would think if I slashed it with the running saw it would do some serious damage. but then I wondered if the fur would choke up the chain. then I got to thinking some more and thought it would make a nice little protection weapon period. I mean who would assault a guy with a chainsaw? but really, just for a bear while camping. my 395 with a 3' bar puts me 4 + feet away. it would be like a sawmill for cutting bear into 3' steaks whatcha think?

 

[magictoad]

395 plunge cut is the only way to go :msp_scared: and hope you don't get squashed:msp_scared: , you try it and let us know if it works ok, failure with the 395 would necessitate a 357 magnum :msp_biggrin:

 

[Grace Tree]

It takes me (at least) 6 pulls to start my 395 so I'd need some advanced notice before the attack. I think I would just holler at the bear: "WHAT'S BETTER-STIHL OR HUSKY?" That would distract him and I could escape. We used to hunt in Coudersport. I was in the woods one day and came across a school bus that someone probably used as a hunting came. Turns out it was the same bus I rode to school when I was a kid. Never figured out how it got there as it's 200 miles from home.
Phil

 

[NCTREE]

Where about in Potter? Someone must be baiting(feeding) the bears if they are showing no fear of humans. I've spent many years in the woods in gods country and never had bear act like that. Some aholes idea of hunting is to get drunk and walk 50 yards from the camp to where the bait station is and kill a bear because they are too lazy to work for the hunt.

 

[Pelorus]

395 plunge cut is the only way to go :msp_scared: and hope you don't get squashed:msp_scared: , you try it and let us know if it works ok, failure with the 395 would necessitate a 357 magnum :msp_biggrin:

395 is a tad bit heavy to wield one-handed. A Viking shield is also essential kit for proper defence against angry raptors such as pterodactyls.

 

[Toyboy]

Whats wrong with a couple cans of Bear spray? Makes more sense them a saw.

 

[SquirrelMan]

I would recommend a polesaw. You could use a thrust technique like a spear while gassing it. Poor Smokey never had a chance.

 

[treeclimber101]

It's gonna be pretty hard pull starting a saw while a bear is tearing the skin from your skull , I recommend a flame thrower or a potato gun ! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[miko0618]

Ole Bull.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Ole Bull.

Nice lookin pines along 144 through there. My wife made me slow down so she could snap a few pics of them on our way home from kettle creek this weekend. From what the guys at the camp say the bear have gotten pretty out of hand down there in recent years.

 

[isaaccarlson]

A good razor edge on a 4-5" knife will do wonders on a bear. Hold it with the point pointing down with your fist in front of you. Stick it in and pull hard to slice. You can stick it in the ribs up high behind the front leg and pull down to open a lung or you can go for the neck. The neck is quicker but the skin and fur are much thicker. Stick it in about 2/3 of the way back toward the spine and pull it down toward you. The object is to cut down and around and sever any and all blood vessels in that side of the neck. If you can get it down inside the collar bone, even better.

A sharp lance works real good if they are the charging type. Plant the rear and in the ground and brace it with your foot. Hold the other end to the bear runs into it. You want it to hit where the chest and neck meet. You might get squashed some doing it this way, but you are not quite so up close and personal.

Sorry, I got to rambling there.....use what you have. A chainsaw is better than nothing. Go for the neck.


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[mtrees]

My neck of the woods. I live about 17 miles from Cross Fork in Renovo.

 

[kyle goddard]

This makes me think of that you tube vid of a guy trimming his hedge with a chainsaw on a rope taped wide open. Just picture a bear at the other end. Lol with a Viking shield.

 

[Zale]

Go the David and Goliath route. Bigshot with 16oz weight right between the eyes.

 

[mr. holden wood]

first off, I don't know where to post this so i'll put er here.

Since you asked it belongs in the off topic forum.

 

[climber32]

how about a ruger super black hawk..............???:msp_w00t:

 

[unclemoustache]

This guy used the slash and stab techniques, and it might have been successful if he would have committed himself to the task. As it was, he got his fanny kicked.

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[miko0618]

it really took me off guard that it wouldn't scare. obviously there are other options that would be better. I was going with what I thought to be the best weapon I had. and really, I think if I hit it with the chain before it got me it would easily go to bone and cut the entire time it was in contact.

it is a special place up there. we go to rattlesnake rock to bike and swim too. if I had a years worth of work up there, I would move.

 

[tramp bushler]

I don't know how many bear I have run off with a power saw .

From 50' or less a couple- few dozen. Mostly brown bear but also black bear. . The closest was 5-8' away.
I have NEVER had a bear continue to come in or fail to keep its distance when I had a running chain saw in hand that had the bar and chain on it. And the chain was spinning.
It is note worthy that they are much less ( put off) if the chain is not spinngin on the bar.

And by spinning, I'm referring to, at a high rpm

But. You should always be toting a Roscoe.

 

[tramp bushler]

Oh, and chainsaws cut a lot slower thru flesh than you would think.. . Maybe its the hair, I don't know. Try slicing up a moose with one. . Not nearly as impressive as you would imagine.