79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
If you’re close enough to use spray.....God Help You.
Another question is where did the 50% success rate for guns number come from? I think Dean has calculated a much higher number for the success rate for gun uses against bears, more like 98 or 99%.
I’ll stick with my Ruger Super Blackhawk used to “spray” bears...
My favorite bear-related quote is, “If you think you can predict what that bear will do, he doesn’t even know.”
They limited their survey sample population to people who could run really fast!
Those who were dead did not respond to the survey.
I thought it was calculated by the bears.
They only interviewed survivors.
It excludes people who were dragged off into the woods and eaten.
The other 2% was from those who used the sprayer with the nozzle backwards.
I would bet bear spray works great against a curious or young bear. I’ll bet it makes an aggresive bear bent on attacking really mad.
98% of bears prefer the taste of bear spray?
How Was the “98% Success Number” for Bear Spray Computed?
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By surveying bear scat ...
How about if I just toss a breakable jar filled with honey?
Where I live, tourists carry bear spray. Locals carry a major caliber firearm.
I’m sticking with my Glock 20 loaded with Buffalo Bore 220 gr. That’s the go-to combination in Alaska for bear protection.
We are hiking at Waterton, Glacier, and Yellowstone next week. We saw a big bruin up close at Glacier in 2020. I had left the bear spray in the car. He was polite, though.
They didn’t count the people who thought it worked like bug spray ...
... and the people it didn’t work for at all never got back to them for some reason.
I’m pro-gun, but I switched from a sidearm to carrying bear spray years ago. It just makes sense - I’d rather have what is effectively a small flamethrower than be trying to hit the brain case of a charging grizzly with my .40 S&W.
how can it possibly be that there were more people injured in instances with injury than total people injured? Are they disregarding cases where the same guy is repeatedly bullied by a conspiracy of bears?