Wilderness camping and gun safety
When camping as the lone camper with miles of wilderness around, do you feel safer with a loaded firearm handy? Or is having the magazine ready to slide in a better option? Thank you for any thoughts....
Forum Discussion
Freep wrote:
I just keep bear spray handy.
Bears don't care if you wave an empty gun at them.
Me too. I have 2 cans of spray near the door of my camper. I did a look of shooting years ago and would never, ever leave a gun loaded. The worst thing you can do is to partially wake up in the middle of the night and grab a loaded gun before your brain starts to work.
At short range outside of being in a windstorm, bird spray is highly effective. I think it would stop a charging herd of elephants.
