I was kind of joking at the ubiquity of Glock 10mm as the "outdoorsman's pistol" these days.

There's a video of a guy snowmobiling who shot a moose with a Glock fotay and Mr. Moose flopped right over.

My kids are small enough to be predator snack size. I've pointed a few guns at black bears but never had to shoot. I've never seen a moose in the wild but they seem like giant mean horses.

A snake hissed at my daughter on a walk and she ran all the way back home. My sister was with the kids and couldn't catch my daughter so she told my son "go" and he ran after her.

She's really scared of snakes. My son said it wasn't a rattlesnake and didn't seem to care.

1. Human

2. Motor vehicle

A two-legged cougar.

They're cheap, big and hold a lot of ammo.  They generally work, but occaisionally blow up, not very often though.  You know you're going to get one plus a chest holster, so why fight it?

I've come close to shooting dogs a couple of times and I had a rifle out once with a bear but he/she wasn't really threatening and I didn't need the trouble of shooting a bear in the middle of summer in NY.

My wife and I were hiking in western Canada once and we came down off a mountain and were in a dark area where trees over grew the path. Something or other stood up on it's hind legs on the path. It wasn't very big, but bigger than a squirrel, maybe skunk size? It was hard to tell as it was pretty dark under the trees. It blocked the path so I pulled out bear spray and told my wife maybe it was a wolverine and I was going to blast it. My wife was all like "That's a squirrel don't do it" and similar unhelpful girl talk. It got suspicious that I might be a dick about the whole situation and ran off before I had to a chance to blast him.

At dinner my wife told the waiter I had been trying to shoot a marmot with pepper spray "Oh tee hee monsiour there are no wolverines around here"


Oh we were hiking in the Alps and my wife went running past me. She had wandered between a sheep or ram or whatever and a baby sheep. The adult sheep decided to kick wifey's ass, and let me tell you, for a egghead who works inside all day that girl can fucking run like a greyhound when she thinks the end is near. She ran past and I saw this stupid farm animal barreling down on me and thought "Well I can't run too" (don't get married) so I stood there as it got closer then thought "This fucker is going to Brownells me" (okay this was pre brownells) so I brought up one of my aluminum hiking sticks and braced myself with the sharp end pointed towards the enemy. She (the sheep I think it was) did stop when it realized I was going to ram (or bend anyway) and aluminum rod into her head.  edit afterwards I said "You ran past me so the stupid sheep would go after me!' "I'm a girl, you have to handle animals"

We passed through some pastures with some fucking terrifying bulls in Switzerland. I walked between them and my wife but boy I was not convinced this was a good idea. I read a few years afterwards that a french lady was killed by one of them.