Subject: Re: bears and bells
Date: Feb 20 14:08:05 1998
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 01:47 PM 2/20/98 PST, John Shelton - ext. 4051 wrote:
> Does anyone
>actually believe that one could stop a charging bear with pepper spray?

Yes, I do. I know a photographer who put down a moose that had pinned a
rather stupid Yellowstone tourist against a tree with a blast of pepper
spray to the nose. Bull moose during rutting season can be awfully nasty.

Pepper spray is effective, and the biologist who has come up with the
information that bears find capsicum as tasty as you and I still carries
it in the field.


- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
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