We've taken a Beretta 92FS stainless while camping. Not for protection against bears or other four legged animals but against the two legged variety. Camping in the wilderness puts you a long way from a 911 call and the police. My wife prefers the peace of mind of knowing we can defend ourselves against "predators". To actually stop a bear would take a very large caliber rifle. The best way to handle bears is to not do anything to attract them. Follow all of the normal bear camping rules. I have also found a drybag that is triangular shaped and perfect for the pistol. The pistol goes in the bag in a hatch during the day. The extra few pounds is negligable. At night it is out of the bag and in the tent. To those who say why would you take a pistol for protection when you wouldn't have one at home let me say that the pistol regularly resides by the bed. Call me paranoid but I have had someone try to break into my house while I was there at night. Yelling scared them off, but you can't always bank on that. Mel --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 07:29:33 PDT
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