Well in all honesty I'm recalling a brief conversation from 30yrs ago, but I remember it pretty clearly. Really don't want to seem argumentative but most responses kind confirm my point in that nobody wants to be in a confined area with spray even a bear. I know you have written several books so you have concrete opinions on some matters but I believe I've shot as many bears in a tent in the middle of the night as you have. I pretty much know I can survive exposure to bear spray but a mauling not so much. In my second response I stated UNLESS the CNS was hit the outcome might not be so assured but believe based on documented accounts that spray would work better. There is a reason they call it repellent.
I'm not trying to be argumentative either. Please don't read it as such. Shooting a bear in the middle of the night in a tent is an experience I am pretty much sure I can live without, as I think is the case with most of us. That said, at point blank range I like my chances better with a properly loaded revolver than something that will probably incapacitate me before the bear even takes notice. If it was designed to incapacitate a bear, I think it will probably be exponentially overwhelming to a man in an enclosed area. But that is also an experience I am willing to forego.
I do have concrete opinions but they are born of lots of testing and experimentation on flesh. I have asked questions and then sought answers through blood letting. I take none of this lightly.
