#10MinuteTalk - Bear Spray Basics and Beyond. Do You Know What You Think You Know?

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🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Spray and pray. That’s likely what’s happening if you’ve pulled the safety wedge from your bear-spray canister to fend off an aggressive bruin. But what do you need to know before you’ve gotten to this point? Where was the place to keep it? When do you decide it’s time to engage this option? Is it less or more effective than a pistol? Do you carry a pistol, spray, or both? What are the pros and cons of each? Brian DeBolt, Wyoming Game and Fish Department Large Carnivore Conflict Coordinator, gives us some great info and best practices to consider for your next outdoor outing.

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0:00.0	What is up everybody mark on the mic here now if you hunt Western big game or you head
0:08.6	out west just as an outdoor enthusiast odds are these days you might find yourself in
0:14.3	grizzly country one thing that you may want to have with you is bear spray but you better
0:20.2	know how to use it so to kind of help us talk about the grizzly details as far as it
0:25.6	relates to bear spray and best practices and we might even get into a little bit of pistol
0:30.4	stuff self-defense stuff in that regard as well.
0:32.8	We have Brian DeBolt from Wyoming game and fish you know one of the I would say the
0:37.7	hearts of grizzly country in the lower 48.
0:40.5	Brian is the large carnivore conflict coordinator did I get that right Brian.
0:47.4	That's correct.
0:48.4	Yep Mark.
0:49.4	It is.
0:50.4	So before we before we dive too deep into the subject matter here maybe just for some
0:54.4	background if you could kind of tell the audience you know who you are what you're
0:58.7	up to and what you do at Wyoming game and fish.
1:02.1	So yeah besides me in a game warden I am a certified peace officer in the state of Wyoming.
1:08.9	My primary job responsibility is managing conflicts between people and large carnivores
1:15.8	which varies from you know a very tip and over a trash can to break it into a grain shed
1:22.2	or killing livestock all the way up to the more severe you know human injury or death you
1:28.3	know or as a result of in this case grizzly bears were talking about but mountain lions
1:33.3	and black bears as well we deal with that.
1:35.7	So in doing that for about 25 years now.
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