Dad needs to learn that a modern double-action revolver is not an 1870s SAA-Colt that did require loading only 5 rounds so the hammer could rest on an empty chamber. Good on Dad for calling out FWP for their obvious hypocrisy on the value of “bear spray.”
“Dad needs to learn that a modern double-action revolver is not an 1870s SAA-Colt that did require loading only 5 rounds so the hammer could rest on an empty chamber.”
Lucky his ignorance of modern firearms didn’t cost him his life.
........you mention “bear spray”........I can’t pass up commenting on one danger of bear spray. I spend a large part of my summers on the Yukon, mainly just floating down the river but I have had many bear sightings and a bear in camp once. It’s also noteworthy that I’m always alone.
Anyway, that “once” I didn’t feel really threatened by the bear because I’m pretty use to being in their backyard and it was not a real big one and it was not exhibiting threatening body language just hungry and nosey behavior.
So, I had my Remington 870 Magnum Tactical in hand with safety off and ready to fire. It was loaded with 000 Magnum shells and would have annihilated the bear had I shot as he was only about 50 feet away. So, with maybe 2 minutes to think things over I sort of employed the bear spray. At about the time I was going to squirt the spray, it dawned on me that there was a slight breeze to my face so if I shot the bear with the spray at least some of it definitely would have come back in my face and almost surely have incapacitated me.
So, my point to all reading this is that, arguably, the spray in a “bear situation” is quite likely to get you killed if you make ANY mistake in employing it.
I still carry it because I do not want to KILL a bear. But, I’m not a goofy liberal and I will kill it if I feel threatened.