"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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Anyone ever have to use it? Does it actually work?
Seems to me that would really ****-off a bear.
http://www.tbotech.com/bearspray.htm
-tom


I'm on WiFi in a W.Yellowstone bar so I don't have time to read all the
replies,

Here is mine ...

after several summers here I finally bought some bear spray ... like all
insurance, I hope to never use it. I DO feel better having it in places
known for bears. That feeling better can't be allowed to replace caution,
of course.

I bought it after a half dozen LOCALs told me that they carry it and hearing
a couple of the stories about why. I've had numerous Black Bear
meetings in the Sierras and never felt the need, but Grizzly tracks are
pretty impressive G

Actually more people have been killed by blacks, I'm told. The spray also
works on Moose and Moose can be plain old mean.

There is no guarantee that the bear will stop an attack if you spray him,
and there is none that you will be able to get the spray out fast enough and
use it. But there are numerous cases of bears that ran off after being
sprayed and Craig Matthews tells me some Park bears turn and leave at the
sight of the canister, they have been there, done that, and don't want
another taste of the same.

No technology is worth as much as common sense ... travel with care where
you might find a bear




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