You know, I hear this a lot - and maybe I am doing something wrong, but does anyone else find that the search function on this forum does not work all that well?
For instance, out of curiosity, I searched "bear defense", and for good measure "bear defence", and I got this thread, and one other about motorcycles and bears (maybe it was bears on motorcycles?).
Is there a setting I am missing? I have only used the search function here a few times, and it generally doesn't really yield that much...even not finding threads that I KNOW exist!
Anyway, there is another way to limit the times you have to read a repetitive thread...it's called not clicking on it...
At any rate, aren't most of these Rossi Ranch Hand threads REALLY about the OP wanting to justify a Rossi Ranch Hand anyway??
I've never tried one, but if it's anything like firing a 3" slug from a Lupara, I'm not in. Like the guy said, put a stock on it, but then, what's the point?
Also, here in regulated Nova Scotia, a second firearm cannot be "at the ready", you can carry a shotty whilst deer hunting, for instance, or another rifle, but it must be unloaded and in a case/pack, not slung over the back etc.
Of course mostly the only bears here are in the dump, or the circus.
;-)