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<blockquote data-quote="Jcann" data-source="post: 3552219" data-attributes="member: 33119"><p>My wife and I were looking at staying at the Great Bear Inn at Glacier National Park. There are several hiking trails close to the Inn which the owners supply all their guest with bear spray. I did not speak with them about side arm carry (non of their business) but use of deadly force on federal land against a federally protected "endangered species" is a big deal. You better be able to prove it was an unprovoked attack and every effort to mitigate the attack was employed. Few human injury bear encounters are predatory in nature with the majority being through surprise encounters. Employing a side arm to stop a charging/attacking bear is a difficult situation to be in. Striking the central nervous system to stop a bear in a high stress situation is a difficult proposition. Especially if its a close-in surprise attack. Your chances of being injured/killed using a side arm are probably higher than if bear spray was used. Even a wounded bear can do severe damage.</p><p></p><p>The best defense is to employ tactics to mitigate an encounter (both in camp and on the trail) which greatly reduces the element of attracting/surprising a bear. Second would be bear spray and lastly firearm. With the time separation between spray/firearm being milliseconds. But.........it's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jcann, post: 3552219, member: 33119"] My wife and I were looking at staying at the Great Bear Inn at Glacier National Park. There are several hiking trails close to the Inn which the owners supply all their guest with bear spray. I did not speak with them about side arm carry (non of their business) but use of deadly force on federal land against a federally protected "endangered species" is a big deal. You better be able to prove it was an unprovoked attack and every effort to mitigate the attack was employed. Few human injury bear encounters are predatory in nature with the majority being through surprise encounters. Employing a side arm to stop a charging/attacking bear is a difficult situation to be in. Striking the central nervous system to stop a bear in a high stress situation is a difficult proposition. Especially if its a close-in surprise attack. Your chances of being injured/killed using a side arm are probably higher than if bear spray was used. Even a wounded bear can do severe damage. The best defense is to employ tactics to mitigate an encounter (both in camp and on the trail) which greatly reduces the element of attracting/surprising a bear. Second would be bear spray and lastly firearm. With the time separation between spray/firearm being milliseconds. But.........it's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. [/QUOTE]
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