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Tomas-TDE t1_ivj4ja1 wrote

Reply to comment by MotherOfPiggles in How To Survive College - I'm a shitty barista by fainting--goat

Paintball guns are actually a solid bear control option even. You shoot near the bear but not at it so it’ll run away. Imagine it’d work with any larger pest

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MotherOfPiggles t1_ivlszmo wrote

Ahh, see I live in New Zealand so we don't have bears or any large predators really but we do have possums with a P and I've had many a run in with the furry kind. Best course of action is to grab them by the tail and swing them around although these possums are the size of a cat and not a person.

Should I ever venture into bear territory I'll make sure to take a paintball gun with me.

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Tomas-TDE t1_ivojcbj wrote

On the off chance this anyone is taking this advice. This is for only for smaller docile black bears to get them outside to scare them out of places they shouldn’t be. A brown bear would absolutely kill you for paint balling near it and a black bear you can usually just avoid if it’s in the wild.

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