Try to remember there’s an electrified fence right outside your tent when you get up in the middle of the night to take a piss. If a can of Bear Spray doesn’t offer the protection you’re looking for, then you might try lugging some fencing and batteries into the backcountry. The Bear Shock outfit weighs 3.7 pounds with batteries, and stretches around a 30 x 30ft area. The website claims the batteries will last five weeks and blast someone with 6000 volts of electricity if touched. I say “someone†and not “some bear†since it’s much more likely you’ll walk into it than anything else.
ByRocky Thompson
Yeah, well in Oregon there’s not much need for this item…..our Black Bears are fairly shy and don’t want to mess with us human critters unless we left our garbage all over the campsite. I was thinking, however, that for what I call “car camping”, driving to the odd remote campsite here and there, that this device just might be the ticket for protecting my girlfriend and her teen-age daughter from the odd encounter with our four wheeling, gun toting Bud swilling back country Oregon folks.
If one of these fine back woods natives so much as thinks about invading my private tent area after dark to do some nasty deeds, then this electric fence may be the ticket. It may save me the expense of a few 9mm bullets as well.
You’ll only forget and piss on it once.
Also it should be noted that use of bearspray inside a tent is a really, really, really, unforgivably, painfully, screamingly bad idea.
There is another company that makes portable electric fences for bear protection in Alaska. They have been tested on the big brown bears on Kodiak and work extremely well. They have a the lightest model on the maket at 2 lbs. Check-um out at http://www.electrobearguard.com