Originally Posted By: Joseph13


I can't remember where I read it but there is a 0% mortality rate when pepper spray is used properly against bears.


When working on a trail crew for the USFS last year in AK my DD2 was often the point person for bear protection. The crew personnel carried the industrial sized pepper spray, she also carried a 12 GA. Never saw a bear.

This summer she and a buddy were fishing and ran across several black bears. Both species went to great lengths to avoid one another. They did have the pepper spray in case (my DD, not the bears...).
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