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If you are an outdoors person and you are looking for non-lethal protection, Bear Pepper Spray can help in a dangerous situation. Most encounters with bears a frightening, but could end with neither the bear - or you - getting hurt. In the story out of Wyoming, think of how much safer the men would have been and the bear would have been if they had Bear Pepper Spray instead of having to use a gun:

Man Kills Bear In Self Defense

Posted: 6:23 PM Oct 24, 2008
Last Updated: 6:23 PM Oct 24, 2008

One of the men who officials say had to kill a black bear in self-defense is talking about the incident.

Bobby Koger and James Forester of Cumberland were deer hunting on Black Mountain Saturday morning when Koger says a bear came with in three feet of him. The men shot and killed the bear in self defense.

Koger says he tried to scare it off but feared for his life.

“I’ve come across bears many times, and they always seem intent on going the other way. They always seem to want to get away from me as fast as I want to get away from them, but this one was just the opposite,” Koger said.

Fish and Wildlife officials suspect people are feeding the bears, making them lose their fear of humans.

Bear Pepper Spray is a great product and is essential for anyone who camps and hikes or fishes some of the hidden rivers and streams in the mountains. Instead of having to kill a bear or other animal, you can simply scare them away, which is what the hunters in this story adnted to do and could have done if they had Bear Pepper Spray with them. Bear Pepper Spray can make the difference in the outcome.

It is almost halfway through the summer and nature is communing with us as often as we are trying to commune with it. In some cases nature is actually winning. Bears are starting to pose a threat in Wisconsin and not just to people in their campsites but to people in their cars!

An interesting story out of Wisconsin reads:

Bear-vehicle crashes up in Wisconsin county

LADYSMITH, WIS. - Vehicles hitting bears is a growing problem in at least one northern Wisconsin county.

Rusk County Sheriff David Kaminski said there have been 11 bear-vehicle crashes this year in his county, compared with eight in 2007.

Kaminski said that probably means the bear population is up.

Authorities also have had a lot of complaints about bears entering the city of Ladysmith.

If you are planning on camping, hiking, or just a short trip over the river and through the woods don’t forget the Skin so Soft bug repellent and the extra strength bear repellent!