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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 1483409" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>No question.</p><p></p><p>Another way I express that is: I would only carry a 9mm for bear defense if I was prevented from carrying a more powerful firearm.</p><p></p><p>9mm is 100% better than what Timothy Treadwell was packing. If I recall, his girlfriend employed a frying pan on the boar that killed them both. That bear just continued feeding on Timothy while she swung that frying pan at him.</p><p></p><p>I wish Treadwell had carried and employed some pepper spray, because I'd give 10 to 1 odds on a heavy bet... that boar would not have been deterred by any bear spray being marketed. Either way, it would have been the best bear spray test case EVER! That bear came to eat and never left his kills. Treadwell didn't believe in bear spray. He considered it unnecessary and inhumane to his Disney character bear friends. He had names for many of "his" bears. Dunno if he named the one that ate him. I have heard that he wasn't familiar with that one.</p><p></p><p>Gov officials finished that bear off at the kill site. They didn't come into Treadwell's camp armed with bear spray. Gov officials don't abide by their own National Park Service guidance on bear spray when their lives are on the line. Four different long guns were fired into that man-eater repeatedly, even after the boar stopped moving. Just for good measure...</p><p></p><p>And the officials went in with triplicate backup. Very good move.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 1483409, member: 4191"] No question. Another way I express that is: I would only carry a 9mm for bear defense if I was prevented from carrying a more powerful firearm. 9mm is 100% better than what Timothy Treadwell was packing. If I recall, his girlfriend employed a frying pan on the boar that killed them both. That bear just continued feeding on Timothy while she swung that frying pan at him. I wish Treadwell had carried and employed some pepper spray, because I'd give 10 to 1 odds on a heavy bet... that boar would not have been deterred by any bear spray being marketed. Either way, it would have been the best bear spray test case EVER! That bear came to eat and never left his kills. Treadwell didn't believe in bear spray. He considered it unnecessary and inhumane to his Disney character bear friends. He had names for many of "his" bears. Dunno if he named the one that ate him. I have heard that he wasn't familiar with that one. Gov officials finished that bear off at the kill site. They didn't come into Treadwell's camp armed with bear spray. Gov officials don't abide by their own National Park Service guidance on bear spray when their lives are on the line. Four different long guns were fired into that man-eater repeatedly, even after the boar stopped moving. Just for good measure... And the officials went in with triplicate backup. Very good move. [/QUOTE]
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