My First Time Using Bear Spray

Backpacker ^ | Mar 10, 2017 | Mike Hittle

[ADemocratNoMore]

Wow. This makes me feel quite stupid, as well as quite lucky.
Back in the day I used to make two or three trips to the French River where a friend had a cabin. We would load up the Cedar Strip with our garbage and hit the dump once a week or so. Standard procedure was to pound on the side of the boat when coming up to the dock to let the dump bears know you were coming. They would back off a little, maybe 30 to 50 yards, I would get on the dock and chuck the garbage bags into the pit and get back in the boat. That's the way all the locals did things.

Just a side note about bears. I wrestled Victor Rasputin at the Sportsman's Show some 35 years ago. Victor was a 750 lb. brown bear. I'm a big guy (around 300 lbs.) and Victor hit me with a forearm across my chest. His forearm was well padded so it was like getting with a gust of wind, not a 2x4. Victor's swat lifted me off my feet and sent me flying across the ring. The match ended in a draw btw.

[Georgia Girl 2]

.454 Casul spray is the best.

[T-Bone Texan]

On FR shortly after he got ate, his nickname was Timothy SNACKwell”.