How do you survive an encounter with a bear? Black and grizzly bears will usually run, but on the rare occasion that they don't? Also, are you pretty much fricked if you see a polar bear? I hear they actively prey on humans for food.
How do you survive an encounter with a bear?
bear spray.
you give it to the slowest member of your group to give them a false sense of security and then you run, keeping said member between you and the bear.
>Bear attack survival strategy level: Expert
Fill the can with lead. That way you ensure the slowest member is tired out and that the bear won't be frenzied by the spray.
>Has survived 4 bear attacks
>Fled Alaska to avoid insurance fraud charges
>are you pretty much fricked if you see a polar bear
run, drop clothes to throw the bear off, keep running, pray. most likely yea but you have a slim chance at survival if you drop clothes every now and again.
just don't encounter them idjit
>t. citygay
>How do you survive an encounter with a bear?
I assume you mean if it attacks you. Fire your gun or bear spray and if that doesnt work lay in the fetal position and cover the back of your neck and head as much as possible and hope it stops lol.
If you shot the bear and it still managed to reach you, you probably infuriated it to the point where all you can hope for is a swift death.
Its called shoot it with a big boy round
This is true. You need to be able to get several shots off and with good aim to the face.
They usually are not willing to risk major injury just for a stinky snack. So if you can threaten them enough they will not attack but they might bluff charge or follow you anyways.
Guns often don't work. Even flare guns are more effective in scaring bears off than sending bullets in their direction, and if you wound them with smaller caliber or bird shot they are very likely to attack you and kill you. That's how most people die here. It's usually hunters that have wounded the bear and then the bear goes in for the kill out of anger.
>They usually are not willing to risk major injury just for a stinky snack.
At least for grizzlies, they are not attacking you to eat you. They are attacking you because you either surprised them, or you are threatening their cubs or food source ie; protecting a carcass. Most people who get attacked by Griz had only seconds to react.
neither spray nor guns are 100% effective. I square up to a bear and if he's still frisky I let him feel these hands. Walk away briskly while he's visiting the shadow realm, works every time.
Is that real?
>flannel chad hiker
>hipster with glasses, beanny and skinny jeans
Huh? I've been around bears countless times. You don't have to do anything other than stay away from cubs
>it didnt happen to me
>therefore it never happens
You have a greater chance of being struck by lightning
>way more lightening strikes than bears
>derp
that depends greatly on where you are. I have a lot of grizzlies around my property. I am much more likely to encounter one than get hit by lightening.
You dont need to do anything, bear do everything for you…
And where are you going to see a polar bear exactly? If you go to the north pole or antartica I assume that you will be with a group of people and with guides with guns, not just walking by your own.
>Antarctica
It's funnier when you realize the root definition of "arctic" means "bear".
How many times have you been in Antarctica?
Not nearly as many times as I've been in your mother
About the same as the number of bears there.
Remember, penguins south, bears north
>"Arctic" - "Arctos" - "Bear"
>"Antarctic" - "opposite of the Arctic"
The fact that there are no bears there is one of my favorite etymological, geographical, and biological coincidences
"Arctic Brown Bear" - "(lives in bear territory) (bear colored) Bear"
45-70.
By not camping in bear country in Autumn. 10mm auto is also a good bet.
>bear attacks only happen in autumn
Bear attacks happen when bears are hungry. In autumn they need to fatten up for the winter and are more likely to take chances on unusual food sources.
Bears are hungry every second they aren't hibernating. Read through this list, assuming you're able to, and then never reply to me again.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America
If you're far enough PrepHole that they don't run when they see a human you should be armed.
Instinct would tell you to run or hide, but that's what prey does. If it's coming at you, you're fricked anyway, so you might as well charge it with your best warcry and hope it decides that maybe it's the prey and runs away.
Even if it's a mother with cubs, appearing fearless like these dogs or the lady can make a bear nope the frick out of there. https://youtu.be/cXY1YaP2juU?si=jtjD8N-CDpu3OgLF
>How do you survive an encounter with a bear?
How do you survive an encounter with a human that may or may not have a concealed weapon?
By not being a drug dealer or otherwise being a pink and starting shit for no reason. Unless you're in some revolutionary shithole like yemen in which case you're just fricked
Jet fire .22
Friends kneecap.
Did a bunch of flyfishing in northern Montana. Saw one bear, on a dirt road as he ducked off into the woods.
Primitive camping on the west side of Glacier NP, never saw any but they were on my mind. I carry spray and a gun. I sing the I Hate Bears song. The spray is for bears at a distance. Just to make the space between us unpleasant. I dont want them close. I had a big ass 44mag, but carrying it was a pain. Sold it and got a SW 10mm, 15round mag, looking for a suitable shoulder holster.
Would hate to kill a bear, they are magnificent creatures. I talked to a ranger in the Park, told me carrying a gun is fine, discharging a gun in the park is illegal, and if you have to shoot a bear, expect a hassle while they sort things out and prosecution if they determine you were in no danger.
This is the trail the sign was posted on.
I read about the guide on the Madison fishing, bear sneaks up behind him and eats him. I would hate to shoot a bear but if I have time and need to pull the gun out, I'm not trying to scare the mf. If he gets me, hopefully he's dead on top of me or managed to crawl 50ft away w my arm in his mouth.
44 Mag is comfy, even the heavy ones.
>expect a hassle while they sort things out and prosecution if they determine you were in no danger.
This is the kind of shit that would make a man shoot a park ranger on sight
I just shoot every bear I see so as a species they re-learn to stay the frick away from people. As a bonus, the local elk and moose hunting gets better when you kill butthole bears, too.
The best time to delete bears is winter when they're denned up. If you find a den, just mag dump into it, pick up your brass and go.
>t.never seen a bear
>magazine
>pick up your brass
You're not packing nearly enough heat.
>killing bears instead of just wounding them so they can go and tell the other bears about the demon with the noisy stick
Fake and gay
>bear charges me
>pull out my 45-70 revolver from my holster
>aim and fire at Center Mass
>first shot went through it's head
>it died on the spot
>call the park ranger so I don't get in trouble for fricking shooting a bear
remember Anons The House Always Wins
Bear spray, If your like me and SOlo hike You call em out and make noise. I carry a Harmonica with me and when i gotta turn corners or somehwere i cant see well ill take that shit out and play it. For the most part they already know to stay away from you due to other dumbasses in past experiences. But if you suprise em by being quiet and turning a corner they will be pissed and probably kill u
FUN FAX:
>If a grizzly bear comes close enough to touch you, it's too late.
>If a black bear is startled by you and touches you, you might actually survive by being submissive because it might just run away once it knows you are fren. But, if a black bear has decided to stalk you, you have very poor chances because this is predatory rather than defensive.
>If a polar bear sees you, you are arctic poop.
What the frick is with this idea that bears are immune to gunfire? People hunt them with spears, and I know a man who killed one with a knife (admittedly he got shredded and couldn't walk for a while)
Yes, your 9mm, birdshot, and .22 will probably not kill it in one shot.
Yes, 2 or 3 .308 shots to the body will, even if it's pissed.
Think about the people who hike in state parks
Think about what their license plates look like
Now ask yourself if they would even be able to correctly identify the rounds you listed.
anon are you responding to the correct post? I didn't say anything about guns or self defense. I was just mentioning the personality differences between the burr
Most people hear stories of bears surviving 5+ shots. Its probaly worth noting its usually handgun rounds and bad shot placement. With good shot placement even a 9mm dirt nap a large predator. See video of guy on snowmobile put a moose down in >3 shots with a glock 19.
>put a moose down with greater than 3 shots
>baby moose
>shot down cruelly for cruelty's sake
>for cruelty's sake
Sick and tired of morons having this take about that video.
that was a lazy as frick killing and totally unnecessary. that's just someone who finally got to shoot something and self-fulfill his own prophecy that he needs his gun.
Okay, lets put a moose in your path and lets see you not shoot it when it approaches you. Fricking terminally inside moron never seen a blade of grass in your life soft skin pristine smelling socks dumb shit.
One man killed a bear with his teeth. A bear attacked him and he bit it in the neck and managed to make a small hole and cut an artery in its neck so the bear got dizzy and bled to death.
I honestly think that one "men think they could fight X and theyre stupid laugh at them" meme is demoralization propaganda. Any man, in fight mode, is gonna take anything of a relatively similar size down with him. But we have this b***h ass puss shit population that doesnt learn how to channel that apeshit mindset.
>relatively similar size
>adult bear
if a man is of similar size to a bear he is at greater risk of dying to heart disease than a bear attack
I yell at it to frick off, if it doesn't want to frick off and won't leave me alone, it's getting shot.
I am a city-gay from San gaycisco and have been polluting I mean hiking your wilderness in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming for years, NEVER carry bearspray, even when there are bear warning signs up.
I've never seen or heard or encountered one. Maybe saw one like 10,000 feet away at Glacier NP that someone pointed out, but are bears even really REAL or just some mythical shit to scare ppl outta the woods?
Am I rolling the dice by refusing to buy bearspray (I'm too cheap to spend that money, gotta spend it all on California living expenses nawmeen)
pic related my fave bear encounter
Thats an elk dumbass
>doesn't even know a bobcat when he sees one
Nice try, /in/
That's not a bobcat, that's a baby land porpoise.
Technically the least incorrect answer
Porpoise? You're crazy. Clearly a ROUS.
It wasn't on porpoise it was an accident
I was in Glacier NP for the first time with my buddy last September and we saw this huge pack of hikers staring at something and I walked over to them and said "whats everybody looking at?" ... "theres a bear!" I twist around and maybe 100 feet away we see a grizzly bear just fricking around not even caring about the people, what was funny was he turned away after a minute and started heading toward the trail further away where we knew people were at. Felt very lucky to see one so close considering ive been hiking all over for 15 years and I finally saw a bear.
You're going to end up like Tim Treadwell and hopefully this time we'll all get to hear the real audio tape
>Am I rolling the dice by refusing to buy bearspray (I'm too cheap to spend that money, gotta spend it all on California living expenses nawmeen)
You are moronic. My brother was the same way and I ended up just buying spray for him. Seriously, it is a small amount of money to further reduce the chances of being attacked, in addition to the idea that “bears are never seen” and “usually don’t attack humans”.
Don't be a homosexual
i go hiking with my dad, sister, bro in law and my girl and when we get deep in the woods where we know bears have been sited this real alpha energy flows through us and we've all discussed us teaming up together and ripping a bear to shreds if it really came down to it, my dad and Binlaw are big dudes but im like 5,9 135 lbs, regardless we all carry knives and usually walking sticks as thick as our dicks
you're gonna need a thicker walking stick
Why would you even bother picking up a twig to use as a hiking stick?
From what I've been told/read, blacks are skittish and will most likely run but could still attack, in which case you could feasibly fight back.
Browns will also keep their distance if you're in a mostly settled area, but deep in the wilderness grizzlies don't mess around and could attack you for any reason.
And Whites you're correct, they will go out of their way to kill you.
good summary of the human species
>Also, are you pretty much fricked if you see a polar bear? I hear they actively prey on humans for food.
They do actively hunt humans but they also aren't typically used to being confronted by prey, they're surprisingly big pussies so it is possible to scare one off. Its why they get bullied by grizzlies half their size
>American black bears are usually shy and skittish
>Coastal brown bears like Kodiaks, Alaskan and Ussuri browns are huge but usually relatively chill
>Inland brown bears like grizzlies and European browns are smaller but more aggressive
>Barren ground grizzly bears are smaller and more aggressive again
>Polar bears are hyperpredatory but not particularly aggressive
>Spectacled bears, Gobi brown bears and giant pandas are a non issue
>Sun bears are shy but can be very aggressive when confronted
>Asiatic black bears are so aggressive that they reverse the relationship seen in american black and brown bears, intimidating and even chasing off larger himalyan brown bears
>Sloth bears are demonic creatures that are worse than the rest combined
Gun and bear spray. I've encountered a few bears when hiking before they always fricked right off when they noticed me. I figure its unlikely ill ever be attacked, but on the off chance it does happen im prepared for it. A bull moose in rut scares me more than any bear.
Look up the Sloth bear of Mysore, crazy shit
>mauls a couple dozen Indians for no reason
>kills more people than the Sankebetsu brown bear
These moronic psycho muppet creatures are terrifying
Bear spray and a 10mm if the spray doesn't do the trick. Now, if you can carry a rifle, go for a .45-70 or bolt gun, in .375 or 300 WinMag.
About Polar Bears, if you find yourself in Polar bear territory and you are unarmed you might as well cover yourself in butter and stick an onion up your ass, stay armed and stay alert, because yes, they do hunt humans, they hunt whtever they can, they live in the arctic.
>sleeping
>?damn dogettingin trashcan?
>turnon light,,,not doggo,,,Bear!
>climbinto wheelchair
>chose pic over 38s
>open door,,bearuns to edge of porch, turns and looks back
>PEW PEW shot bear twice in butt
>bearunsaway like a b***h!
>wakeup fully,,realize bear could haveaten me!
pic> thegun,,,trashcan.
,,if only someone used pepper spray he wouldbe fully seasoned!
They litterally run away if you walk towards them talking loudly and clapping after every syllable like black people do. They also don't like unnatural sounds, so crumpling plastic or cellophane bags also works but you have to do it really aggressively.
I don't ever worry because I carry my bear-specific anti rape kit whenever I go out. I bought the good one in fact, it even fends off gang rapes by bears which are becoming a monthly problem in my parts. Don't get raped by fricking bears!