I had a close "encounter" with a young Y'Stone grizz a few years ago. He tried to creep up on me while I was fishing but I heard twigs snap and saw him. In the next few seconds, my life zoomed before my eyes .Thankfully my bear spray takes NO effort to locate and use. I started spraying when he was about fifty feet away and he walked right into the spray stream at about 20/25 feet. Stopped him like a wall. He got up on his hinds, shook his head , turned and split like a bat outta.
This encounter caused me to reconsider my preparedness and since then I doubled my protection. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...3/IMGP1364.jpg
If the right one don't get im the left one will . By the way the "left" one is only a .380 suitable for aiming and use only when the bears tonsils are clearly visible.
Mark