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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I can also caution people from experience that "bear mace" does very little to irritate a bear and even more ironic is that when you are out in the wild and breezes are blowing and wind circling and folding around your body, you are much more likely to incapacitate yourself than the animal.
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If a bear is angry and charging you bear mace will not stop the bear. If a bear is angry and charging you even a lethat hi powered rife shot...may not stop the bear before he gets to you. Just like a human animal being lethally shot...one can still continue to move for a few seconds to a minute or more. In the case of the bear that is enough time for one to be mauled or even killed by the bear.
I have not actually been charged by a bear...although I had one lower its head and it began to approach me...a few rounds from the .357 turned it around and it left the area...but did so in a kind of nonchalant manner.