What to bring hiking: Bear Mace or a Gun?

My opinion on whether you should bring a Gun or Bear Mace while backpacking in the woods

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• Bear Mace
• Gun
• Backpacking
• Safty

[zakass409]

Im sorry, are you talking about protecting yourself are wanting to hurt or kill the bear you asshole.

Look at me, im a hick! Now lets go shoot a bear that i find and say that it attacked me.

Bear mace is good enough to protect yourself in any situation with a bear

[northwoodsdude]

My first priorty is safty on any wilderness hike. Bear mace is generally just a mild irrantant for bears, it won't stop em. Also pre-emptive action is best if you see the bear first.

[DocPatirck]

so you want to kill a bear thats all i am hearing. i would use an have used bear mace to deal with a bear an once some wolves. An as a experienced hiker i would not bring a gun, are job is to observe the wonder of nature an if it attacks us we must find a non lethal way to deal with it not kill it.

[northwoodsdude]

You'll get much more satisfaction if you kill it. Especially if it's trying to attack you.

[ledzeppie]

no, no I wont. I'll have guilt for killing it. We intrude on there territory, why should they be punished for defending it?

[ErikH829]

Sounds like a Bear racist!!! Lol!!! Your gonna end up as bear poop!!!

[Lboogie501]

@johnymatic ohh shut your pie hole

[MrXipetotec79]

This man should never be given a gun.

[johnymatic]

I've been an backpacker & hiker my whole life. I do carry a .357, wouldnt leave the truck without it...

HOWEVER, you sound like a tool. "if its looking at me the wrong way"

I"i'll antogize it, to try to get it into a full charge"

I'm sorry, but anyone who grew up with the wilderness knows that your retarded...You have the wrong mentaility...period.

I will use a firearm & or mace to stop a bear. I feel sorry for anyone with you on trail. Your gonna get yourself or others killed.

[Carex09]

1:34 "Shooting a bear with a pistol, is a spiritual experience."

Indeedy. Like one to brag about for the rest of your life to your beer drinking buddies? Well there is a story for you. God loves stories, especially about death, so you ARE RIGHT. Totally, a "spiritual experience" wielding the power to take an innocent creature's life in just seconds.

Yep. That is the God I know alright. Seriously psycho.

God loves you as a priest does a choir boy.

[mrmikesgunrack]

i bring a gun more for the two legged than the four

[nobody4969]

Sorry for the spelling erros

[nobody4969]

I want to take my little brother camping. I have done backpacking trips and i want him to know the outdoors his about to go back to school its summer so bear are active I do not own a gun and can not buy want what can I do just to keep him safe is there another tool I can use or something. I could you give me a honest anwer.

[TheSneakygypsy]

ha fuck bear mace i will never trust a $15 can of mace that is made in china with cheep plastic that could break if i fell over and could cover me in mace. im all for the tree huggers not wanting to kill the bear but i dont go bear hunting but when i dear hunt that bear could be hunting me and when it comes down to who comes home at the end of the day ill unload my glock 22 into anything in the woods to make sure i stay alive but im not going to look for a bear to kill

[gaozhi2007]

I have no problems with someone using deadly force to defend themselves from a bear, or a human for that matter. What I do have a problem with is someone like you saying they are going to "antogonize the bear into a full charge," and "shooting a bear is a spritual experience." There is nothing spiritual about having to kill another living creature, especially when you have provoked it. You give responsible gun owners and naturalists a bad name.