Counter Assault Chest Holster

$19.95

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Item # 694797

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This chest holster will keep your Counter Assault® Bear Deterrent secure and within easy reach while you travel in bear country.

Adjustable holder gives three different carrying configurations: Wear it centered on your chest, clipped to a pack shoulder strap, or on a belt
Designed to carry 8-oz. Counter Assault Bear Deterrent, sold separately

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2011

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Waste of money

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This is almost completely useless. Unless you have absolutely NO other way of carrying your bear spray, avoid this holster. - It comes with no useful instructions and there are none on the website. - The holster has a retaining strap for the spray canister that won't fit over the 230g canister handle that it was designed for. - The retaining strap locks down the safety clip - very tightly - and blocks the finger hole completely preventing you from doing ANYTHING with the canister until you undo the retaining strap. - You could not undo the retaining strap and ready the canister with one hand. If you use two hands it would still take 3-4 seconds just to get the canister out (it will be pointed across your chest at that point, by the way). - If you don't attach the retaining strap to allow easy and fast manipulation of the canister, the retaining strap is bulky and about 10 inches long. An annoying and unnecessary piece of material to have dangling off you.Bear spray is designed for one-handed use. You need to be able to deploy it, aim and be ready to fire in just a couple seconds. This [$] holster impedes EVERY element of bear spray canister design; elements that are intended to save your life![...].I feel much safer (and it's much more convenient) to use my pocket than to use this excessively cumbersome holster. Even with fully-loaded hip belts on my Gregory Baltoro 70 backpack, I can whip the bear spray canister out of my thigh pocket and be ready to fire about 1 second if I use the finger hole. Using the loop and first hand, second hand, first hand method I can be ready to fire in just over 2 seconds. Using this holster on your chest, you would be hard pressed to be ready to fire in less than 5 seconds. From a dead stop a bear can cover 50 yards in 3 seconds.I will return this worthless holster the first chance I get.