No big story with the bear spray. Believe it or not a day after spraying it the bears actually are attracted to it. We practiced so my wife would know how to use it. A couple days later where we sprayed it the ground was all tore up and the frost looked like a bear had licked all the rocks. He chewed up the can and carried it off a couple hundred yards and layed down with it. I wouldn’t keep a can in camp that had been sprayed. Just my opinion.