the truth about defending yourself from a black bear

[mmattockx]

bluff or not I don't take chances. Sorry Yogi, but we own this planet.

You are also probably not stupid enough to go hang around that close to a bear, so your reaction seems fair to me.

If you leave that women alone long enough the problem will solve itself.

We can hope.

It never ceases to amaze me. Stupid should hurt.

Yes it should, but give it time it might still yet work out for us.

Mark

 

[Mr.4x4]

Alot of help she will be when a kid sees this vid on YouTube and thinks ok to chase bears around and looses his/her face. What a dumb ass.

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

Well either that bear is ill or domesticated, a normal wild bear will not let a human get that close ever, let alone eating, and yes wild black bears are more afraid of people than we are of them.

They do not stick around for us to take pictures like this.

Non the less this is a very explosive situation, and to taunt an animal, well she must me a professor!!lol

 

[Olof]

I was "Bluff" charged by a Black Bear 30 years ago, and it bared it's teeth and was snarling. A very sobering experience that reminded me how dangerous a "docile" black bear can be. Proper respect for wildlife is very important for one's survival.
My wife and daughter had a frightening experience with a black bear this summer. The shotgun is definitely coming along next summer...

 

[Scarheart]

Ironic, as I read this thread I am watching "When Animals go Bad". She needs to watch it I'm thinking, but it probably wouldn't sink in anyways.

 

[1899]

Reading some of the comments on Youtube sheds light on the stupidity of these ARFs.

 

[H4831]

Stupid is as stupid does.(To quote one of her must be relatives, or maybe that's an insult to forest)
I'd love to see the video of her provoking a "bluff" charge on a big old sow with a cub or two ----

I have twice chased a black bear, with cubs, up a tree. Black bears don't defend their cubs, like grizzlies do. I was on an unused bush trail with a 4x4 and two young nephews with me. Around a bend, thirty feet away, was a mother bear and two spring cubs. I stopped the truck, jumped and chased them. The old one ran away and the cubs went up a tree. i did it so the kids could get a good look at them.
Another time I jumped out of the truck and chased a mother and two cubs up a tree, so I could get pictures.
The people on these threads who have had no experience, whatsoever, with bears, are scared shootless of them. The old timers who spent most of their time in the bush, thought bears were about as dangerous as a pet cow.
One fellow I knew shot a spring cub every fall, for the fat. He said in over twenty years of getting a cub every fall, he never once had to shoot the old bear. He said, "Oh, they snort and nash their teeth and make the odd false run at you," but none ever attacked.
Qualifier: Black bears that have become used to people and getting feed from people, can be very dangerous and should not be trusted.

 

[BrotherRockeye]

I have twice chased a black bear, with cubs, up a tree. Black bears don't defend their cubs, like grizzlies do. I was on an unused bush trail with a 4x4 and two young nephews with me. Around a bend, thirty feet away, was a mother bear and two spring cubs. I stopped the truck, jumped and chased them. The old one ran away and the cubs went up a tree. i did it so the kids could get a good look at them.
Another time I jumped out of the truck and chased a mother and two cubs up a tree, so I could get pictures.
The people on these threads who have had no experience, whatsoever, with bears, are scared shootless of them. The old timers who spent most of their time in the bush, thought bears were about as dangerous as a pet cow.
One fellow I knew shot a spring cub every fall, for the fat. He said in over twenty years of getting a cub every fall, he never once had to shoot the old bear. He said, "Oh, they snort and nash their teeth and make the odd false run at you," but none ever attacked.
Qualifier: Black bears that have become used to people and getting feed from people, can be very dangerous and should not be trusted.

black bears aren't scary!

well most of em anyhow...

 

[Calum]

I have twice chased a black bear, with cubs, up a tree. Black bears don't defend their cubs, like grizzlies do.

Perhaps our Vancouver Island black bears are different as the mainland bears as I have personally witness a mother black bear defending it's cubs on several occasions over the years. Perhaps not as intense as a Grizzly, but the instinct is there from what I have seen.

black bears aren't scary!

well most of em anyhow...

So says the man from Saskatchewan who could probably watch a bear approach from a day away.

Come over to BC where have have trees and brush so thick at times you can walk into a Bear.

 

[KO]

Stupid is as stupid does.(To quote one of her must be relatives, or maybe that's an insult to forest)
I'd love to see the video of her provoking a "bluff" charge on a big old sow with a cub or two ----

I have twice chased a black bear, with cubs, up a tree. Black bears don't defend their cubs, like grizzlies do. I was on an unused bush trail with a 4x4 and two young nephews with me. Around a bend, thirty feet away, was a mother bear and two spring cubs. I stopped the truck, jumped and chased them. The old one ran away and the cubs went up a tree. i did it so the kids could get a good look at them.
Another time I jumped out of the truck and chased a mother and two cubs up a tree, so I could get pictures.
The people on these threads who have had no experience, whatsoever, with bears, are scared shootless of them. The old timers who spent most of their time in the bush, thought bears were about as dangerous as a pet cow.
One fellow I knew shot a spring cub every fall, for the fat. He said in over twenty years of getting a cub every fall, he never once had to shoot the old bear. He said, "Oh, they snort and nash their teeth and make the odd false run at you," but none ever attacked.
Qualifier: Black bears that have become used to people and getting feed from people, can be very dangerous and should not be trusted.

Well, please forgive my ignorance. I have come across black bear many times over the years, only once (that I know of) that was a sow with a cub. I never did get off the quad to chase her on foot, so you are right I have no experience of that to speak of. To say I have had no experience with bears is the assumption on your part. You are right, I have never been threatened by one, nor have I ever been really concerned about it. I have never started a "bear defense" thread or have ever taken part in one, I am also not juvenile nor inexperienced. Just happened to comment on a thread that I thought would eventually lend a hand in proving the natural law of selection. So once again forgive my misguided beliefs of these wonderfully timid and loving creatures, and chase on.

 

[Mike Webb]

My grandfather who spent years in the woods hunting,working and fishing told me once," Bears is just like people, every once in a while ya run into a real bastard." Seems like a fair observation.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Qualifier: Black bears that have become used to people and getting feed from people, can be very dangerous and should not be trusted.

How true, and this is especially noticeable with those that roam around our cabin at Bowron Lake. All spring and summer with canoe paddlers and especially the general tourist traffic in the area, it doesn't take them long to adapt to scrounging the easy meals. In essence, it turns them into garbage dump bears and with little to fear from all the friendly people, they get pretty bold.

With Moose quarters hanging from the meat pole, the worst they've done is nibble a little around the neck area. A little bit of stew meat gone, not a big deal. We're only there on their turf for a short period, so I can live with that.

There have been odd occasions when one gets a little too bold, hanging around just a little too close for comfort. In those instances, a little pain discomfort convinces them to stay away, and live. I have a little 410 single shot that sits on the dash of the truck for ditch chickens on our Moose hunts. I have a few shells that I've replaced the lead shot with unpopped popcorn. Let them get a ways away and give'em a burst in the ass. It probably leaves a slightly tender welt on their butt for a few days but they 'learn' a little caution and stay away, and live. In all the trips and years I've been going back to my old stomping for Moose hunts, I've only had to shoot and kill one.