And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
What is it about imagining yourself shooting an enraged, attacking grizzly?
When I see those illustrations of shooting grizzly bears, I think of the reports in the Lewis and Clark journals of it taking up to 10 shots to bring down one of those beasts.
Reminds me of the scene in “the wind and the lion” where Brian Keith portraying Teddy Roosevelt is lecturing the artist on how he made the grizzly bear TR shot look like a “hairy cow.” Teddy/Keith then proceeds to stand on his desk to show the orders how are you fighting snarling grizzly bear should look. Second best scene in the movie next to the attack on the palace https://youtu.be/vyZAubXAbxk
When I see those illustrations of shooting grizzly bears, I think of the reports in the Lewis and Clark journals of it taking up to 10 shots to bring down one of those beasts.
ReplyDeleteShooting a bear is unfair. Killing a "bar with his bare hands" like Davy Crockett seems like an actual accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteThe bar Davey kilt was a black bear. Much smaller and nicer than a griz.
DeleteReminds me of the scene in “the wind and the lion” where Brian Keith portraying Teddy Roosevelt is lecturing the artist on how he made the grizzly bear TR shot look like a “hairy cow.” Teddy/Keith then proceeds to stand on his desk to show the orders how are you fighting snarling grizzly bear should look. Second best scene in the movie next to the attack on the palace
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/vyZAubXAbxk
Whoops, that should say “ To show the artist how a fighting snarling Grizzly Bear should look.”
ReplyDeleteGene Simmons dresses as a bear for Halloween and is shot by local red neck.
ReplyDelete-Snakepit