[QUOTE=onewhoseeks;2614583]first of all try and track down whats known as bear repellant. got sprayed with it during an altercation this summer and it sucked the fat one. secondly if your going to carry it. buy a couple and practice with it. the prick that sprayed me tried to run up to me and spray point blank in my face.
dumb ass ran into his own cloud of mist and blinded himself. also sprayed his buddy and blinded him. shooting one off beforhand would have helped him ya know not spray his freind and himself.
thirdly. personal pepper spray is designed as a tool to be used by women to prevent rape.
as a self respecting male I would suggest carrying an extendable night stick. a knife. a gun. brass knuckles.
pepper spray is for the weak[/QUOTE]
I’ve learned much of value in this thread , I will however chime in with something here as regards the socalled " bear" repellents. In my experience the various sprays may get you by with lower 48 black bears.
However with the northern bears…if they’re close enough to hit with pepper spray they should have been piled up dead twenty feet ago. Pretty much the only time it’s been successfully utilised is when the bear wasn’t real serious anyway. Black bears are one thing the big bears are something else entirely , grizzlies aren’t that often encountered in the lower 48 with the exception of limited parts of Wyo, Mont , Idaho and a few other states.
I can however see where it might be very good for defensive purposes against humans though , and the canisters are pretty good sized…a question to the LEOs here , have you ever run across a verifiable case of someone utilising pepper spray against a carjacker?
YMMV…