Uh...I don’t recall questioning the wisdom of preferring high powered guns as the best form of bear medicine.
Real question, though: how effective is bear spray on humans? Because I hear it’s illegal to use oven spray or wasp spray in place of pepper spray.
It has lower oleoresin capsicum content than human spray. I’d guess that’s offset to a large extent by the far greater quantity and greater range. And the fact that you’re firing a bear or man encompassing cloud, not trying to his a forehead. And marking your assailant orange. But the canisters are big, and could be more difficult to deploy in close contact. You’d be in the cloud as well. Don’t know about wasp or oven spray, I can see where that could be a problem. Fortunately when traveling where all these things are illegal, I usually carry my wife’s hair spray for her. Again unprofessionally, intent can be anything. If you are carrying bear spray for defensive use on humans, that could be a problem. I only carry it for bears.
“Real question, though: how effective is bear spray on humans? “
Just use a dog spray. Halt is one brand. It’s what mail carriers are issued.
I just didn’t understand your first post...never mind.