.44 Mag bear spray? S&W .500 bear spray?
Bear spray is such a joke. It reminds me of sanctions on North Korea.
He shot bear with pepper spray at 2 ft and it ran off??
Real bear spray or that little stuff you get at Walmart?
Around 1982 I used some government issued pepper spray against a doberman which was about to eat me alive. It was one tenth of one percent. That used for bears today is around 100 times stronger than that old stuff.
It stopped him like he was poleaxed. I have no doubt that pepper spray would be effective just about every time.
That is assuming that you actually hit him in the nose/eyes. Of course with a 500 S&W you also have to hit him.
I went to school with a kid named Tom Sommers.
If you are ten yards away from a grizzly and you don’t already have the sights on him, I’m not sure there’s much you can do.
They are around up here and you NEVER know for sure just how they are gonna react if you come up on one by surprise.....or if they come up on you by surprise!
Bear spray is usually quite effective if the bear has not yet committed to an attack profile. Once it has, it will run right through a cloud of the stuff to reach the target. If it’s stalking, following, or only curious, hose it down, or if it isn’t in range, hose down the ground it has to cross. If it’s decided to charge, go big or get eaten.
While technically correct (and I recognize you are quoting someone else - it's not your statement), I suspect many people have been deceived by this statement. Bear spray requires less training, not no training - less skill, not no skill.
When my daughters moved out, I bought each of them defensive pepper spray. They each used the same spray multiple times, going through a full Sabre before leaving home and another full one over the course of the next year (and not using the one they actually carried). That's a whole lot less training that the well over 1,000 rounds each of my kids had with a firearm, but it's also a whole lot more training than most people with pepper spray or with bear spray ever get.
Bear spray is expensive, but I'd rather buy two than have to read (or even think about) the instructions before using it in an emergency. I have come very close to using it twice. Each time, I was relieved when the situation resolved to realize that I knew what to do. Each time (probably not coincidence), I was downwind of the bear so I would have been spraying into the wind. I suspect the mamma and cub brown bears would have run away if they had smelled me; the Grizzly I don't know about, but he moved off slowly just before getting too close. Also, when traveling with bear spray, if I don't have a close friend to give it to, I use it before flying home - training.
A little putty and he’ll be fine...
If there are Grizz about then it’s best to rely on 50BMG..... twin 50Bmg.
Ma Deuce. Accept no substitute.
Maybe the bear was exhaling through the cloud.
I like to post songs on threads in an effort to try to match the general subject of the thread with a song that could be seen as related to the subject in some way (sort of like thread background music). For this thread, I have to admit that this song is a tasteless match, and I apologize in advance for it, but I'm going to post it anyway. Here's the song:
Real men use a knoife...
A little trivia.
According to Outdoor Life, (and I have seen it a couple of other places since), more people in North America are killed by Black Bears than Grizzlies or Brown Bears.
S&W 686 7 rd - 4” barrel
200 gr. hard cast ammo
Because I can get the .357 back on target for multiple shots.
I don’t have to be able to out run the bear...
Did I read somewhere on FR, that when a bear was attacking a man, the guy used his fingers to gouge the bear’s eyes -— and the bear backed off?