When you're out in the woods up there in Alaska, do you wear a noise maker on yer hip? I've seen some vids of charging grizz's where there wasn't much time to get locked and loaded… and then, the gun better mean business! A charging grizz at me… I'd be loaded all right, in my shorts…
Some recommend tourists to wear bells for the bears When you see bear droppings with bells in it, another tourist feeding. LOL Only had a couple make mock charges, most are pretty skittish . That increases the heart rate. The ones in parks & protected areas, I worry more about. No fear of man. Just make some noise when in thick vegetation , they don't want any confrontation with people. I walk thru thick bear areas saying "Yo Bear, coming thru", still here
I might be the slowest one walking in the woods but I wouldn't be the quietest… with all those noise makers firing lead pills at anything real big, hungry and mad comin at me…