T. Ohair:
I never had occasion to try it. That was in the early 70s and no bear spray.
The idea was that you shredded his face causing extreme pain and distraction, if you had the chance that got you 4 rounds of that (one if lucky, maybe two and either it was distracted or you were in a world of trouble). Slug was for killing it after application of 00 buck to the face area.
the point was there was an intent, i.e. a plan and it was loaded into the brain to execute as intended. I did not come up with it, but I respected the party chief who had tramped the woods far more than I had (I was 17 at the time).
Putting a load of slugs in the gun meant you hoped to kill it before it got on top of you, highly unlikely at encounter ranges and the speed involved. Given one shot to get off I would rather go with 00 Buck to the facial area, but then that's my take of an approach someone else came up with and I thought was as workable an approach as any.
With pepper spray available that's by far and away the best option for a chance encounter that leads to an attack. Most do not, more often a bluff charge at worse and then if you just back away its over.
I spent a lot of time tramping through the woods fishing with only a pistol.
Frankly that was a noise making tool or an option if you got treed and it would not go away (which has happened a couple of times to others)
One guy with pepper spray never reached for it, he froze (he got beat up but not awfully)
You don't know what you are going to do until it happens. No one like to think that but its born out in fact. The people that are good at it usually worked their way into it (guides) for most it’s a one time event.
In all the time up here and plenty spent in the woods I never had an encounter, so its rare and often the ones who did were not paying attention (the last guys were dragging a whole dead deer leaving a blood trail on Kodiak Island which hunting regs tell you is really bad move and it was)
I never had occasion to try it. That was in the early 70s and no bear spray.
The idea was that you shredded his face causing extreme pain and distraction, if you had the chance that got you 4 rounds of that (one if lucky, maybe two and either it was distracted or you were in a world of trouble). Slug was for killing it after application of 00 buck to the face area.
the point was there was an intent, i.e. a plan and it was loaded into the brain to execute as intended. I did not come up with it, but I respected the party chief who had tramped the woods far more than I had (I was 17 at the time).
Putting a load of slugs in the gun meant you hoped to kill it before it got on top of you, highly unlikely at encounter ranges and the speed involved. Given one shot to get off I would rather go with 00 Buck to the facial area, but then that's my take of an approach someone else came up with and I thought was as workable an approach as any.
With pepper spray available that's by far and away the best option for a chance encounter that leads to an attack. Most do not, more often a bluff charge at worse and then if you just back away its over.
I spent a lot of time tramping through the woods fishing with only a pistol.
Frankly that was a noise making tool or an option if you got treed and it would not go away (which has happened a couple of times to others)
One guy with pepper spray never reached for it, he froze (he got beat up but not awfully)
You don't know what you are going to do until it happens. No one like to think that but its born out in fact. The people that are good at it usually worked their way into it (guides) for most it’s a one time event.
In all the time up here and plenty spent in the woods I never had an encounter, so its rare and often the ones who did were not paying attention (the last guys were dragging a whole dead deer leaving a blood trail on Kodiak Island which hunting regs tell you is really bad move and it was)
