how long do you keep your bear spray?

Yes Geo - I agree of course - but it is funny to see the gun nutz buy the line that "You guys don't need guns 'cause you are better off with pepper."
My wife carries pepper - but I carry a .45 antique. Together, we will decide who is supper and who eats supper.
 
When I'm bow hunting in kananaskis, I carry the spray in my hand as I hike.
Close bush, cow calling, hunting into the wind while covered in elk pee.
Not the time to find out your spray doesn't work. I wish I could carry my .357, but obviously I'd go on a murder rampage if I was allowed to do that
 
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Yes Geo - I agree of course - but it is funny to see the gun nutz buy the line that "You guys don't need guns 'cause you are better off with pepper."
My wife carries pepper - but I carry a .45 antique. Together, we will decide who is supper and who eats supper.
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My thinking is like this.

Yes I am glad that I am legally carrying a .454 Casull 6 shot revolver with 2 extra speedloaders (other than the extra weight).

But there could be situations where the spray is a better first choice over the revolver eg. the bear has my partner down and is mauling him/her with rapid, unpredictable movement by both the bear and the victim while a major adrenaline dump in my body is making fine motor control difficult.

In a scenario like this, it MIGHT be better to use the spray to drive the bear off my wildly flailing partner before touching off several 300 grain softpoints at 1650 feet per second.

I may elect to use the revolver first but with both tools on my duty belt and plenty of training with both beforehand, I have more options regarding the actions I can take. And in life, more options is usually better than one.

"If all you have is a hammer, pretty soon all of your problems start looking like nails.".

YMMV
 
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Yes Geo - I agree with your thinkin'.
I watched a little video article on CBC last night - telling folks that spray is better than guns - and then goes on for some time to tell how to play dead for a grizzly and how to fight and yell and such to save ourselves from black bears. It is amazing just how we are told that hand to hand combat is okay with a bear. If it works so well... well maybe it should be taught in school? "Always wear a rape whistle on a date with unknown people and when travelling in Gettohoods, always be ready to dial 911 - and don't play dead for a black bear - that's the one without the hump - and if there is a nuclear explosion near your house, listen to your radio and someone will tell you what to do - and pay your carbon tax so the authorities can save the planet - and ignore your conscience - unless you have the new updated version which has already been installed in your school children - and let the strange person at the airport do strange things to you so no terrorists can get on the planes and.... and ...and... Trust us we know best.

What is coming our way through the darkness is big - and ugly - and whatever we have after it is through with us ... it is not going to be what we had before.
 
anchor3593 said:
What is coming our way through the darkness is big - and ugly - and whatever we have after it is through with us ... it is not going to be what we had before.
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Thank goodness for my .454 Casull..............

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Through the fog - I think I see a Ruger? I had one the same - if it is - out the other day. I cast 310 grain bullets and put a gas check on them - but I'm wondering what speed I could get out of a 240 grain JHP - that would be an interesting load.

I also see some sort of crow that needs eating - an admission that everything that we have said and done is less than wise or good. This will - if it hasn't already - make our eyes water worse than pepper spray blown back into our eyes as we try to do battle with beastly dragons of our own making. The stupidity of bowing before the politically correct beast will burn in every memory - like being given the hellish job of identifying and reburying the Jews exhumed from mass graves - when it is we who killed them. This politically correct beast requires that we sacrifice ourselves and our children in some boiling witches caldron of loveless ... decisions from which there is no hope of escape - unless - unless - unless ... some truth comes back to life and the day dawns again.

Well - the sun has arisen so I'd best be dragon the old tractor out and doing battle with some brush around here.
 
The judicious application of .454 lead will either solve a problem - or make a small problem really really big. For a lot of us, the small problem is the cost of ammo - and popping off factory loads will certainly make that problem obese. Applying a couple or more of these to an incoming beastie might do a great job of reducing the incoming speed problem to zero - or if it were a really really big beastie coming in at a really high rate of speed with his loading shute open, we might end up wearing a fur coat before we intended to - but I like the thought of having the opportunity to least try to land a couple of good ones.
 
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