Counter Assault bear spray and UDAP pepper spray are both made in Montana, where I live, and come with the highest recommendations.
Indeed I was elk hunting in the mountains yesterday and bumped into another hunter who was carrying UDAP (even though this time of year the bears are almost always sleeping, which is why I had left my Counter Assault at home).
We got to talking and he repeated the claim I have heard many times, that even the tough Coastal Alaska wilderness guides count on spray just as much as they do .44 mag revolvers, shotguns loaded with slugs, and so on.
An eight-ounce can of the brands I mention will immobilize your assailant and probably clear the store for half a day.
p.s. Now that I have written all this I see that New Jersey even regulates defensive sprays, although you are allowed a single small canister. I must say I would pick one out that you are comfortable with and carry it, rules be damned. You aren’t going to badly harm anyone and the risk of a pepper spray violation is far less that than of bodily assault.
If you can’t find a way to get any drop me a freep mail.
True dat. I carry the stuff for bears although like you, I’ve put it away for the season just now. But it’s my first resort when I’m looking at an approach by Mr. Bear. First, it’s easier to hit him than with my second resort, a S&W .44 magnum, and second, you don’t have a dead bear to explain away to Fish & Game...
Thank you everyone for your help!
I will get this for my sister in California. Can it be sent through the mail there? Thank-you.