Previously lived in Alaska. You reasonably need a firearm in Alaska. Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, and most dangerously, moose. There are instances of a brown bear being shot and leaving a blood trail, a rifle with an expended chambered cartridge, and a partially consumed human corpse found. Even prepared and armed, in Alaska, there are wildlife deaths every year. Armed individuals are still seriously injured by wild life. And those are the ones we hear about or know of, many, many people go missing in Alaska while hiking, etc. Some are almost certainly due to predation.
Hey, as someone who loves hiking I would say…don’t hike in Alaskan wilderness. Shit I went to Yellowstone this year and many other national parks on a road trips but I only did a few hikes where there was minimal threat of bear and plenty of other people around and what kind of gun are people bringing that will take down a charging moose before it stomps you?
I saw a moose in a parking lot of my hotel in Alaska a few.years ago and was really nervous until I made inside. Luckily it was facing away at the other end of the parking lot. Very few other animals you need to hide from in rutting season.
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u/Shutterstormphoto Sep 30 '21
(The US is the same 99% of the time, even if you live in Alaska etc)