interesting coincidence...

[jay]

Emails received within 15 minutes: one is from Pascal, showing photos of heavy polar bear damage to a couple of HMP structures on Devon Island (*huge* snow drifts, too...). The second is regarding re-upping for the wild animal defense (firearms self-defense) class, in April...

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I'm trained to try to frighten them away, if spotted at a distance. If at close range, or if one charges, I'm trained to place center-body shots with a large-caliber rifle (say, .45-70) or a 12-gauge shotgun using slugs. But we have to then pay a mandatory $25K fine for killing a bear, unlike the Inuit locally... so the joke there is that if anyone has to kill a bear, then Samson (local guide and asst. camp manager) did it, by definition...