Bad news.. Hugging trees doesn�t work with most bears.  Most bears in North
America are Black bears and they are very good at climbing.  If the bear is
rather large and doesn�t climb the tree then hug for your life.  It might be
the rarer grizzly and they tend to shake trees a bit.  Twin M2 would
probably just irritate it.
Of course the exception is the untreed areas of alaska and if the bear is
extremely large and brown or extremely large and white.  Areas that I was in
and saw those bears there wasn�t a tree for many many miles.

(fond memories of a short trip to shemya and a woman behind every tree. Also
a warm friendly place somewhere east of point barrow.)

jimt

On 9/16/05 8:59 PM, "Evan Mac Donald" <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> HEY HEY there- I Hate granola, and I would only hug a tree to save myself from
> a bear! It might be fun to figure out how to mount a twin .50 caliber turret
> on the top of my van. I would love to be the owner of an SVX powered Vanagon!
> More POWER!!! URH! URH!! URH!! (Tim Allen Grunts... ...its Friday after all!)