Bear in Camp How Did the Ursack Perform?

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so this is the air sac that I've been using I have posted a lot of my videos so I use it on all my camping trips and all my canoe trips I tie this to a tree close to ground level so you don't have to do a bear hang now by doing that it's much quicker you can always find a tree and Road on one of the islands of Phillip Edward Island on the south side and we saw Big Bear just before we went to bed I would on the other side of the island sort of a horseshoe shaped island he was on the other side and great big bear came in of course the young group that just left that campsite left it a mess I went over there and checked it this morning and there was food or wrappers and stuff in the fire pit so anyway we watched him feeding there for a bit we actually got some pictures of him doing that we didn't hear him come into camp last night but this morning just upwind of us so this if he comes around to the island and comes up towards us he would pass that our fire pit first which is where we cooked our dinner last night and I had left all the pots of an old clean but all the pots and everything I like to leave the mode so bear does come into camp I hear the noise from going through that stuff but he bypassed that went straight to the bag of food that was well upwind of the tent so he had to go right past our tent to the north end of the island or the west end of the island rate to the very point one pine tree there I had this bag and my to canoe packs tied to the same tree didn't think the bear came so we didn't hear anything but he's sure enough he did so here's all the teeth marks I've never seen this before this is him trying to get in so you can see little teeth marks there but he couldn't a little scratch mark their claws actually could see the claws and teeth marks teeth marks penetrate barely penetrating a couple of spots but see all this all the spots at one spot he actually got a thread going but no real damage so I can open it up and see what the food looks like inside okay so I showed you the damage to the bag itself not too bad so a couple of spots where his tooth just went through it between the threads he did penetrate this it's a plastic bag which is supposed to be sent for a problem is this bag I need to wash that between trips because that would get some food on at each trip so he would have smelled that Plus this bag is getting a little ragged and old so it probably wasn't 100% sealed so he did smell it he did find the food really heard the fool bear's sense of smell though but inside so that's a little bit of damage but other than that like you can get the aluminum liners for this so it goes on the outside of that but the inside of this bag and supposed to stop the teeth from penetrating but you know I'm pretty happy with that there's a lot of stuff in here that could have been damaged toiletries we're in the bag all this food you know tube of jam things of oil that's what I was afraid of that something like that would get penetrated by crushed by his jaws but everything's fine

even the oils fine none of that got crushed so that's perfectly fine I won't bother ever putting getting a liner I'll just get a second bag as a backup and keep them clean it's a big bear last night probably three 400-pound bear and he wasn't able to penetrate this so I'm happy with the performance it will continue to do exactly what I've been doing