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  1. Do you have a link to these cases, I've never heard that before.

     

     

     

    Mike

     

    I dont have a link, but if you read the book "bear attacks their causes and avoidances" you will read about plenty of instances where problem bears repeatedly come back to camp and occasionally even follow people as they are trying to get out of camp. Obviously this is worst case scenario and 99% of the time you can spook them away with bear bangers or a warning shot. The 1% of habituated problem bears is why I carry my bear gun.

     

    The one other problem nobody has mentioned with bear spray is its effectiveness in the wind. Clearly everybody here knows about how windy it can be when fishing southern creeks. Since most bears will take off when they smell you, what happens when you come around a corner downwind of a bear and it does not smell you at all or hear you because of the good old southern AB winds. You are downwind....how do you plan on shooting bear spray into the wind?

  2. I am just curious what you guys do for bear spray when going on multi day trips. There is plenty of documented cases where bears have hung around a camp for multiple days on end(despite being sprayed, shot at, etc) You are 15-20 km away from your vehicle and you shoot off your can of bear spray...what do you do when the bear comes back? Better start prayin!

    I know on humans bear spray is not as effective once it has been used multiple times. If a problem bear has been sprayed before that bear spray might not be that useful after all. I do know that hot lead is just as effective every time.

     

     

  3. try pine lake, its got a good population of perch, whites, and pike. I wold head to the far side of the lake (the trailerpark where the tornado hit) and work the shallows

     

    Off topic, but I have never heard of a white out of pine until now. Have you caught them out of there yourself?

  4. Cool, never heard of that before. 1.4m translates to 55 inches, I just went and measured a ram 1500 with 6" lift/35" tires (very standard lift/tire combo) and it is 43 inches to the centre of the headlights. To be another 12 inches taller, that would be one ridiculous sized truck. Judging from that, they can't really enforce any laws on lifted trucks except for monster trucks. Avalanche have you seen many monster trucks rolling around lynnwood ridge? lol

  5. You have to know the delta to have success up here. Water levels change daily and you need to know where to go on an almost hourly basis to catch them with the feed bag on.

     

    And in the few months you have lived there, you have learned it all. Bravo!

  6. A tad strange ... most odd patterns with strange thread.

     

    Perhaps a very young person or someone who is physically or mentally challenged .. in which case, it is what it is, and good on 'em.

     

    or maybe a blind person?

     

  7. Unless I am a total spatial idiot (which isn't out of the questions), I would have thought that if I have a tire with a 3" bigger radius, then the distance from the axle to the ground will also increase by that radius.

     

    I was confused by your original post. You mentioned going from a 17" tire to a 20" tire (which are smart car sized) on a honda ridgeline. Thats why I assumed you were meaning wheels not tires. Now you are still talking about 3" increase in tires. I believe the stock size tires on a ridgeline are 245/65SR17 (approx. 30" x 9.65 x 17). I dont think you would fit 33's on a ridgeline, or as mentioned you might be losing some plastic next time you hit a bump. My advice: keep the 17's, and move up a tire size or 2.

     

  8. Clearance is certainly less than a standard pickup, and the undercarriage is not made to bash around. I might consider moving up to 20" tires as the ones I have on now are getting old and I could use the extra 3".

     

    Just curious what you mean by this? I assume you mean move up to 20" rims, instead of 17" rims. Moving up to bigger rims wont give you extra clearance though, just less sidewall. Which obviously is not good for any off road driving.

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