when I was up north I surprised the odd bear in the bush, they could not run away fast enough (black bears). It would scared the heck out of me when a bear goes crashing thru the jack pines.
I used to fall asleep in my ground blind overlooking my corn bait piles in the fall (75 yards roughly) and wake with bears eating corn, never worried much.
and in ten years I only ever shot one in defense of livestock ( destroyed chicken coop) it was interestingly the only one that didn't auto run and he did come back.
I bet I got within 25 feet of it before I filled it with 308. Side note I also had 6-7 dogs at the time and this bear was not scared of them, so I figure it had to go!
I would carry a shorty 12g shotgun on my back or quad when hiking traveling on my and surrounding crown land but that is not fear is just like the knife on my belt, the folding shovel on the quad, you never know when you need a certain tool in the bush it's better to have and not need.
awesome pics buckmastr
