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A thread up above about non-gun dog defense prompts me to discuss the Mace Pepper Gun. We all probably have friends and relatives who absolutely refuse to consider carrying a gun for self defense, and we all probably wish there was a reliable less-than-lethal weapon to offer them. Well, this thing is well worthy of your inspection.
The Mace Pepper Gun is shaped and sized like a break-open snubby revolver, except that the "cylinder and barrell" are all one unit, an inch and a half in diameter. Still, it easily conceals in a front pocket. Like a snubby, it is instinctively grabbed and aimed, and much more fumble-proof than any other spray device. It is all metal, has a large and positive top-tang safety, and can be fired "double-action" from any angle--even upside down.
It also has a BLINDING focused LED light that is used to both disorient an attacker (probably bright enough to scare off a dog) AND to direct the spray like a laser sight--the spray covers where the light focuses. With the safety on only the light shines with a trigger pull. With the safety off, first the light shines and then with a further trigger pull the spray fires, and hits where the light beam shines.
Now, the big deal here is that it is POWERFUL, and does not lose pressure until the spray is exhausted. I got to practice in a windless concrete parking garage. A tightly concentrated, forceful narrow spray shoots a no-kidding twenty feet, covering about a three-foot diameter patch. This is with the water test-cartridge that is included in each package as a training tool, and it is supposed to replicate the performance of the pepper cartridge. At fifteen feet the target is bound to be immobilized by a one second shot, barring strong wind. I got six equally powerful two-second shots out of the test cartridge, which implies twelve effective one-second blasts. This is the finest pepper spray tool yet!
You can see it for sale in the Cabelas catalog for around seventy bucks if I remember right. I did a long Google search and found it for sale on many sites from forty-five dollars up to eighty-five dollars---some of those internet "personal security" sales sites have no shame or limits to their greed! I also found several items that looked exactly the same as the Mace product, as if they were made in the same factory and using Mace cartridges, but I have no idea about the quality of the other brands. All I know is that Mace designed this masterpiece of engineering, and the Mace Brand has been innovative and reliable for thirty years or more and does not cost much more than the imitators.
And, uh, yes! I do recommend you examine this thing. I carry it almost every day as a backup to my PPK. And I can carry it to the places that I can't carry a gun....................elsullo
The Mace Pepper Gun is shaped and sized like a break-open snubby revolver, except that the "cylinder and barrell" are all one unit, an inch and a half in diameter. Still, it easily conceals in a front pocket. Like a snubby, it is instinctively grabbed and aimed, and much more fumble-proof than any other spray device. It is all metal, has a large and positive top-tang safety, and can be fired "double-action" from any angle--even upside down.
It also has a BLINDING focused LED light that is used to both disorient an attacker (probably bright enough to scare off a dog) AND to direct the spray like a laser sight--the spray covers where the light focuses. With the safety on only the light shines with a trigger pull. With the safety off, first the light shines and then with a further trigger pull the spray fires, and hits where the light beam shines.
Now, the big deal here is that it is POWERFUL, and does not lose pressure until the spray is exhausted. I got to practice in a windless concrete parking garage. A tightly concentrated, forceful narrow spray shoots a no-kidding twenty feet, covering about a three-foot diameter patch. This is with the water test-cartridge that is included in each package as a training tool, and it is supposed to replicate the performance of the pepper cartridge. At fifteen feet the target is bound to be immobilized by a one second shot, barring strong wind. I got six equally powerful two-second shots out of the test cartridge, which implies twelve effective one-second blasts. This is the finest pepper spray tool yet!
You can see it for sale in the Cabelas catalog for around seventy bucks if I remember right. I did a long Google search and found it for sale on many sites from forty-five dollars up to eighty-five dollars---some of those internet "personal security" sales sites have no shame or limits to their greed! I also found several items that looked exactly the same as the Mace product, as if they were made in the same factory and using Mace cartridges, but I have no idea about the quality of the other brands. All I know is that Mace designed this masterpiece of engineering, and the Mace Brand has been innovative and reliable for thirty years or more and does not cost much more than the imitators.
And, uh, yes! I do recommend you examine this thing. I carry it almost every day as a backup to my PPK. And I can carry it to the places that I can't carry a gun....................elsullo
