Or a gun that squirts pepper spray and shoots a bullet at the same time?
You're getting there. When travel afoot in bear country was a daily liklihood for me, my most usual companion was a short-barrelled 12-gauge shotgun, sometimes with a folding or pistol grip, sometimes not.
Ammunition choice was easy: in the daytime [when surveyors work] it was loaded up with 12-gauge solid slugs, known in the midwest as *deer slugs* but as *bear slugs in some corners of the West and Alaska.
For nighttime use, a *Dragon's Breath* round was first up, useful both as a bear deterrent and as a signalling device to aircraft flying overhead. It was expected that if the first round didn't leave Mr/Mrs Bruin fleeing in a smoking, smoldering panic from the Fire God, it'd at least flashblind one loing enough for the following 5, 6 or 7 slugs to follow.
Only caveat with the Dragon's Breath rounds: don't use during fire season, and don't fire straight up when signalling.
