Pepper spray is considered to be one of the best choices for self defense as it will temporarily stun an assailant, quickly making them incapable of carrying out an assault even if they wanted to, and it is 100% non-lethal method. Generally, pepper spray is dispensed from a spay can and is aimed directly at an assailant.
Spray-can dispensing of pepper spray has been extremely effective when the assailant is up close and personal, but not so when further away and not acting alone. The pepper spray pellet gun has been developed to address this type of problem and is becoming much more popular with people looking for an effective, non-lethal home defense weapon, but before we delve further into the benefits of such a weapon…
What Is Pepper Spray and Why Should You Use It?
Pepper spray is a chemical irritant that is often integrated in small sprays and devices intended for incapacitating intruders or attackers. As a result of its special traits, pepper spray attacks the eyes, skin and mucous membrane, causing temporary symptoms such as coughing, pain and difficulty in breathing.
The great thing about using a device that uses pepper spray is that it is inherently harmless. It won’t cause any permanent damage, and it is definitely not lethal. As a result, you have a convenient and safe way of defending yourself and incapacitating your aggressor.
What makes pepper spray so efficient is its powerful active ingredient known as oleoresin capsicum, commonly abbreviated OC. Even in small concentrations, OC can become a very powerful irritant, and its effects when combined with water is that it allows for the coverage of a much greater area of the body. As a result of the intensity of the effects experienced through OC, pepper spray can still have a strong impact on drunk and intoxicated people.
Why Using a Pepper Spray Pellet Gun Is Your Best Choice in a Home Defense Situation
A pepper spray pellet gun is the most effective way of delivering a round of debilitating pepper spray accurately at much greater distances than can be achieved with spray cans or spray pistols. It is this fact that makes it the best choice for home defense particularly against larger groups of assailants.
The pepper spray pellet gun works in the same way as paintball guns work, using compressed air to propel the pellet, which is in fact a small ball filled with pepper spray powder that explodes on impact.
The pellets use the same type and concentration of pepper spray that you’d find in a regular pepper spray can. However, the pellet gun will deliver the load much more intensely, and as mentioned previously, much more accurately and over a greater distance. There are even been pellets produced that combine pepper spray with tear gas and other compounds, making your pepper spray pellet gun even more efficient at stopping assailants, whilst maintaining its non-lethal label.
Other advantages of pepper spray pellet guns are that they are highly resilient and reliable, and because they are based on paint-balling tech they are designed to be loaded with multiple rounds and many versions have the functionality of changeable magazines too! All this means you can continue shooting until either your compressed air or your ammo runs out, either way, the pepper spray pellet gun will still provide a much better result than conventional pepper spray delivery methods, a fact not lost on the US military as it’s now common to find authorities, or US troops, using pepper spray pellet guns as a non-lethal alternative for taking down the bad guys.
What is the Best Pepper Spray Pellet Gun?
There are a number of companies that make these types of guns, however there is one company that were there at the start and their flagship gun the S1 is still an industry best seller and that company is Salt Supply.
The S1 gun by Salt Supply, is a state of the art personal and home defense weapon. The S1 pepper spray pellet gun is powered by a compressed air cartridge and can hit targets as far away as 150 feet without a dip in its effectiveness to deliver a full strength pepper spray payload, although accuracy will drop the longer the range used over, as with any handgun.
The S1 has an impressive 7 round cartridge which is far superior to all of its main competitors and changing an empty magazine for a full one takes literally seconds.
Unlike regular guns the S1 has only the slightest of kicks and upon firing there is no loud bang.
Although there is little doubt that the S1 is an excellent long range pepper spray pellet gun I can’t help thinking that accuracy would be improved with a longer barrel.
When researching for long barreled pellet guns I realized that the S1 pepper pellet balls are a standard .68 gauge and as such could also be used with any paintball gun that fires pellets of the same caliber.
The vast majority of paintball guns use .68 balls and many of those have long barrels and are also able to carry pods full to the brim of ammo, well worth checking out if the S1 isn’t for you and you also want to save a few bucks!
Conclusion:
Whether you’re out jogging in the park, in a room with some shady individuals or trying to escape from attackers on a train, pepper spray will often be everything you will need to fend off your attackers and get to safety. However, when it comes to an effective non lethal weapon for home defense regular methods of dispensing pepper spray don’t cut it, combining the unquestionable effectiveness of pepper spray with the range and accuracy offered by a pepper spray pellet gun is definitely the winning combo!
