Every time I've picked up a bottle of 10% Oleoresin Capsicum, it has been 2 million SHU. These are rated for LE use and we had to take a course in using them correctly (yes, I know that sounds stupid).
If you have different volume containers and each container had 10% by volume of the Oleoresin Capsicum, wouldn't that necessitate that they would have the same SHU since there would be the same amount of the "hot stuff" per volume?
a: training makes a lot of sense. Not stupid at all.
b: No. % by volume only tells you how much of the active ingredient is in the bottle. It does not tell you how strong that active ingredient is, and not all OC brands use the same mix in their OC products. I have seen OC rated up to 5.3M SHU. The heat index isn't a direct correlation, or in direct proportion to the % by volume, simply because it only measures the raw amount of ingredient but doesn't detail what that ingredient actually is. This would be like me selling you a pizza with hot peppers (undisclosed type) and saying it has 10% peppers on it.. whereas SHU rating is like selling you a pizza and specifying that it contains Bhut Jolokia peppers as opposed to Habeneros.
none of the ones that I've owned had any sort of safety other than needing to pop a top to access the go buttonMany peppersprays take practice to take it off "safe" and deploy.
Thanks for the info. I was not aware of that.
Concerning the training... there isn't much to it. Don't point into the wind, shield your eyes, shake the canister before going on duty, etc. etc. Most of it is common sense (yes, I realize it isn't very common now a days). I didn't mean to downplay that one shouldn't train at all, but that their isn't much to using it properly. "Stupid" was a poor choice of words on my part. Thanks for correcting me. :smile:
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