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Here's why I carry a rifle instead of bear spray!
BTW, Montague Island is one of my all time favorite places to hunt!
DM
BTW, Montague Island is one of my all time favorite places to hunt!
DM
Here's why I carry a rifle instead of bear spray!
BTW, Montague Island is one of my all time favorite places to hunt!
DM
A total of 444 people and at least 367 bears were involved in these incidents. We found no significant difference in success rates (i.e., success being when the bear was stopped in its aggressive behavior) associated with long guns (76%) and handguns (84%). Moreover, firearm bearers suffered the same injury rates in close encounters with bears whether they used their firearms or not.
Once a bear charged, odds of firearm success decreased nearly 7-fold
Law enforcement agents for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have experience that supports this reality -- based on their investigations of human-bear encounters since 1992, persons encountering grizzlies and defending themselves with firearms suffer injury about 50% of the time. During the same period, persons defending themselves with pepper spray escaped injury most of the time, and those that were injured experienced shorter duration attacks and less severe injuries.
As yet, there is no record of a human fatality in an encounter where bear spray was used. However, Smith and Herrero recorded 17 human fatalities in cases when rearms were used as defense, whether the victim was killed by the bear or by human partners trying to defend against the attack.
Due to the fact that bear spray is registered with the EPA, it is considered a pesticide. Therefore it carries the same federal law warnings as any other pesticide.
OC-Trainer,
"Bear-spray" as a generic term isn't "registered" with the EPA. Individual products are. From some quick review it appears that several bear spray companies have registered with the EPA under the pesticide category so they can market their product as "registered with the EPA". Please correct me if I'm wrong since the distinction is important in the discussion of legality of use.
A forestry worker suffered serious injuries in what a conservation officer characterized as a “major attack” by a grizzly bear in a remote logging camp north of Vancouver Island in Canada.
Ryan Arsenault, who works as an engineer for Capacity Forest Management, was savagely attacked Wednesday afternoon near Rivers Inlet at Draney Inlet about 250 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia, according to the Vancouver Sun and CBC News.
The circumstances surrounding the mauling are under investigation, but what is known is that a nearby coworker immediately came to Arsenault’s rescue, using bear spray to deter the grizzly.
“His quick actions certainly saved [Arsenault’s] life,” Fedorkie told the Vancouver Sun.
The Grizzly Truth
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As yet, there is no record of a human fatality in an encounter where bear spray was used. However, Smith and Herrero recorded 17 human fatalities in cases when firearms were used as defense, whether the victim was killed by the bear or by human partners trying to defend against the attack.
Just wanted to point out a new bear spray holster from UDAP. In my mind, it is now the best on the market. Not only can it be fired straight from the hip, it can be drawn, and it can also "break" from the side, if needed in a prone position. Most holsters require some sort of belt, this one does not. Very versatile.
(Skip ahead to 2:30 mark if you just want to see the holster)