I’m glad the gentleman was well-prepared. I’ve read a lot on bear spray, visited sites selling it and stores and used pepper spray once myself. It’s interesting that the spray was not enough against the bear.
This is an interesting story because it seems to say a gun or pepper spray by themselves was not enough.
The “studies” hyping bear spray have some problems:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/10/wybear-spray-v-bullets-flaws-in-studies.html
It would be my luck that the bear liked spicy food.