I had five of those ba#$%rds come up out of my trash dumpster one night. I carry an ash sledge handle, when I take trash out, to pack it better, and from two-legged varmints. (it was in a dark alley of a campus area). It was a fight I hadn't expected, but I killed three, chased of two, and broke that handle in the process. (Of course, my wife was screaming her fool head off the whole time......I think I'd only been married a year or two, and she had never seen me fight anything before. She knew I hunted, but never thought I'd have to beat something to death, Scared her a bit....
Only for a day or two. Need some regular non iodized salt for the hide, Fixin on gowin' to town t'morrow.
When raccoons start hanging around the house, the Pitts get wound up so we shoot the raccoons. Bears can be "trained" to stay away using firecrackers.
