Better still is the discussion by Rokslide member
@mavinwa2 :
https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/best-bear-spray.181338/post-1755083 How does one guy get into so much trouble and live to tell the story?
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MAVinWA2 here to respond, aka MavHntr/YouTube-Mav's Outdoor Adventures
I'm in my mid-60's now. But back in my 30-40's, I'd be compared to the infamous Aron here, as in that amount of time spent in the outdoors & remote backcountry. Far more than the average working guy.
Even now, retired, I spend over 150 days per year, camping, fishing, hunting....and love every minute of it. Doing it while I can, as my body & health allows.
"Trouble" always seems to find me. Just being aware of my surroundings,
prepared, quick thinking-reacting and getting lucky, I survived a few encounters with predators when hunting....fishing AK too.
I posted on this site about a Grizz in MT that charged me back in the 1980's. Vowed to never go back to MT stick-n-string elk hunting and haven't in the last 37 years. Invited several times to hunt NW Wyoming but declined be it for the brown bear. One grizz charge and pair of pissed pants was enough in a lifetime for me.
Never went back to northern Idaho either. But that wasn't 4-legged preds but rather 2-legged, skin head types. Hunting public national forest, north of Coeur d'Alene, was approached at trailhead, parking area by 3 men. "Aryan brothers" as they denoted in my presence. A brief exchange wracked my nerves to the core. Quickly, I just loaded up and drove off, never to return. I carry a concealed weapon to this day, because of this incident.
My father was an Air Force Capt, having flown F86 Sabre Jet in the Korean War. Married a Japanese hospital nurse, my mother, having met while he was recuperating from being shot down...by a Russian piloted Mig.
My dad, his squadron buddies always said;
"when you saw a white face in the pit on a fly by, it's pucker time".
So, for a 6'-2", 210-lb, 50% Asian/White male, had my run-ins over racism many times in my life.
At my age, health, it's the 2-legged type predators that concern me most in the outdoors.
But I'm
prepared to leave 'em where they encounter me, should they make the wrong choice.
If a 4-legged pred gets me, F' it, I was due. But I hope to go down fighting.
