Posted on 07/02/2019 6:09:33 AM PDT by w1n1
Which is Better when you're on a walkabout in Bear country?
is it better to have both? Not one or the other. One thing about bears out in the woods they can be quite stealthy, not your typical Yogi bear hanging out at the dumpster.
If you're in their neck of the hood (bear country) while on a hunt, hike or fishing they see you. You may never even see them. Bears may follow at a distance or run from you. Then there are the bears that size you up for their next meal.
So yes, arming yourself with shotguns and large caliber rifles would be wise. Many people complain of lugging the heavy rifle around the woods. Some even complain about bear spray.
Youtuber American Backpacker has the solutions and it involves both firearms and bear spray. They also stated that using a bear spray is more effective than firearms, based on research done by Fish and Game Department. Bear spray are effective because the spray affects their senses: sight, skin, nose and lungs.
They go on to do a light comparison such as: Bear spray is easier to deploy than a firearm, point and spray. Firearms needs to have good shot placement. Shot placement will likely falter while a bear is coming at them.
The studies that were conducted by Fish and Game Department. Do you ever wonder how they gather the information in order to advise hunters and hikers on the use of bear spray. There are hunting folks that will tell you if they already have their gun in hand, why would they drop it just to pull out their bear spray on a charging bear. Read the rest of bear spray or guns.
I vote for flamethrower.
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When I see cops and the military give up guns for bear spray, I’ll think about it.
I once shot a can of bear spray in my pajamas...
You can tell Grizzly scat from regular bear scat by the small bells in it, and the odor of pepper spray.
Every few months there’s a bear spray vs. guns thread on FR.
The answer is 10mm
Grizz have charged right through spray and still killed. I use firearms.
Bear spray is good when you just can’t decide if you need to shoot someone.
C. Karelian Bear Dog + gun
What the spray was doing in my pajama I will never know.
Use flammable bear spray? Flammable wasp spray??
Why not have bear spray that you can mount on a rifle and deploy with a trigger pull? That way if the bear spray doesn't work you can fall back to shooting ... or vice versa.
I’d like to see used in Portland. By the cops, I mean.
.454 Casull in a lever action carbine. Hard cast bullets.
That’s my take from reading 2 decades of bear threads here.
Another idiotic
Post from w1n1.
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But it kills Time.
And they're wrong.
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