Tisk, tisk. There you go again skirting the questions. Have you no shame? You continue to make baseless claims in the short time you've been here, and then when asked to support them, by me and other members (about a variety of topics), you just ignore them. You never back them up.
I posted the entire page from the Wyoming G&F website, as well as scoured their entire site to see exactly where they "encourage bow hunters to carry handguns." Found nothing. So yeah, selective
I'll try again...
Where are you getting your information from? Where are they recommending a handgun specifically? Please provide a source.
Let the world in on where you are getting this information, please.
Yes you did and I showed the
FLAWS on the studies in the other thread we had going on bear spray .vs. firearms.
"Our findings suggest that only those proficient in firearms use should rely on them for protection in bear country.
Success rates** by firearm type were similar with 84% of handgun users (31 of 37) and 76% of long gun users (134 of 176) successfully defending themselves from aggressive bears."
No kidding. Yet in the same study...
"Firearms failed to protect people for a variety of reasons including:
1. lack of time to respond to the bear (27%),
<--- gee gosh! And how many didn't have time to respond to the bear with bear spray?
2. did not use the firearm (21%),
<--- well duh, that ain't the firearms fault. That is the dummies fault.
3. mechanical issues (i.e., jamming;14%),
4. the proximity to bear was too close for deployment(9%),
<--- And how many didn't have time to respond to the bear with bear spray?
5. the shooter missed the bear (9%), the gun was emptied and could not be reloaded (8%),
6. the safety mechanism was engaged and the person was unable to unlock it in time to use the gun (8%),
7. people tripped and fell while trying to shoot the bear (3%), <--
so how is this the gun's fault? And how many didn't have time to respond to the bear with bear spray?
8. and the firearm’s discharge reportedly trig-gered the bear to charge that ended further use of the gun(1%)"
Where is the same kind of stats on bear spray? Does he really think those handling bear spray were infallible?
And if you subtract that 27 + 21 + 9 + 3 (that is 60 percent of the failures so that makes the firearms success more like 90 percent or more) AND the fact that all kinds of firearms, .22s, .38s, 9mm, etc... are included, not 'bear' guns, then you find firearms do very well compared to bear spray.
Deaf