With a bow and arrow in hand, this guy encountered a black bear on a trail. The wild animal charged him and tackled him to the ground before he could run awa...
I was looking for black bear videos after @Darthsenio_Mall's recent post and found this lol.
With black bears, if they attack, fight back. They'll generally back off pretty quickly.
With brown bears; play dead. usually once the bear realizes you're not a threat they'll leave you alone and walk away eventually. Also, if you fight back, you'll just die tired.
Yeah playing dead won't save you if it's hungry but if it just thought you were encroaching on its territory and a threat to its primary food source it might leave you alone.
Also with black bears a knife could be enough to save you, Grizzlies can take a shotgun to the face and still fuck you up.
Growing up I hear lots of stories of brown bears shrugging off .357 rounds to the skull, or losing an entire arm to a shotgun blast then coming back to maul a hunter or fisher later. I think the only gun worth having if you insist on bringing a gun in to bear country is a semi-auto shotgun with slugs. But honestly, most people do just fine with bear spray and singing.
read a thing about natives in alaska hunting with .22s (and some slightly larger rounds) and killing grizzlies and moose cause .22s are the cheapest. they get the right angle and shoot them in the back of the head to sever the spine from the head. or straight through the eye. wild shit
With black bears, if they attack, fight back. They'll generally back off pretty quickly.
With brown bears; play dead. usually once the bear realizes you're not a threat they'll leave you alone and walk away eventually. Also, if you fight back, you'll just die tired.
Yeah playing dead won't save you if it's hungry but if it just thought you were encroaching on its territory and a threat to its primary food source it might leave you alone.
Also with black bears a knife could be enough to save you, Grizzlies can take a shotgun to the face and still fuck you up.
Growing up I hear lots of stories of brown bears shrugging off .357 rounds to the skull, or losing an entire arm to a shotgun blast then coming back to maul a hunter or fisher later. I think the only gun worth having if you insist on bringing a gun in to bear country is a semi-auto shotgun with slugs. But honestly, most people do just fine with bear spray and singing.
read a thing about natives in alaska hunting with .22s (and some slightly larger rounds) and killing grizzlies and moose cause .22s are the cheapest. they get the right angle and shoot them in the back of the head to sever the spine from the head. or straight through the eye. wild shit
That's how the monster in the book The Relic is finally brought down and I think the protagonist even mentions killing a bear.
It's a really good book and so is the sequel if you like sci-fi murder misteries with horror elements.