On 2020-05-03 7:54 p.m., Leo wrote:
> On 2020 May 2, , U.S. Janet B. wrote
> (in >):
>
>> from the accounts that I have read, a bear doesn't give you all that
>> much room to get the barrel up to fire.. That's why bear spray comes
>> in a holster with a trigger
>
> Paraphrased poorly from a years ago Usenet post on a mythical glitter bear
> repellant:
>
> Glitter Bear Repellant identifies the bear that you had to spray.
> Black bear: Look for a bear that has glitter on its head and chest.
> Grizzly bear: Look for signs of glitter in its scat.
>
> Something like that.
>

There is a similar story about how hikers should wear metal bells on
their feet so the noise will scare the bears away. They should also
learn to identify bear scat. It is tubular and looks like human crap.
Black bears are omnivorous and their scat often has bits of berries and
seeds in it. Grizzly scat sometimes has little metal bells in it.