I don't, but I should. I was watching a coon through my ATN 4K Pro mounted on my .357 Bulldog. He was facing directly away from me, so I was just waiting for him to turn broadside for a shot. He was at 30 yards raiding my bird feeder and seemingly unaware of my presence. Suddenly, he turns and starts running directly at me growling, snarling and hissing. When he got to like 15 yards, I fired in self-defense. I was up on my deck. I left the gun in the rest and ran like a girl, trying to get the door shut before he got in the house. My wife heard it all and was laughing her a$$ off at me. The next morning, I went out to check the scene of the attack. My deck is about 15-18" off the ground at that point. There was blood on the front edge board of the deck about 4 feet right of where I was sitting, and the coon was deceased under the deck. I had to belly crawl under the deck with a long stick to drag him out. The best part is, I have it all on a dark grainy un-edited video that has a bunch of nothing after about one minute, because the camera was still running after I went girl.
High powered pepper spray, that sprays in a cone pattern, like Fox 1.4 or Vexor is my preferred defense for dealing with animals. This stuff is several times stronger than popular bear sprays. Most of the "attacks" I've endured in this life have been violent dogs that have gotten off leash. I believe these ultra strong pepper sprays are equally if not more effective at dealing with animal threats, especially if the animal is fast, wiley and hard to get a bullet into.
Frankly it's my first line of defense for violent and crazy people as well, unless they've got a firearm. You know how laws are in most states... you better do all you can do diffuse the situation in a non-lethal manner unless you want to be the one paying for the other person's crime.
Although I will admit, of course, a clean shot works instantly while the pepper spray takes a couple seconds to kick in. But once it does it's game over and you're going to have a much better time with law enforcement afterwards. I'm basically a pacifist anyway, nor do I care about showing off or out-gunning anyone. Kind of why I like airguns.
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