Bears Don’t Care About Your Philosophy: Why Firearms Matter in Bear Country

AmmoLand ^ | April 2, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Nikolayenko followed a bear which came out of hibernation in December of 2003. Nikolayenko carried bear spray. He approached the bear, the bear attacked, killed and ate him in spite of his use of bear spray. It was the first fatal failure of bear spray which has been recorded. It has not been the last.

[martin_fierro]

Grisly, man.

[Magnum44]

He approached the bear,....

[marktwain]

I suspect this was a case of an obsession with bears combined with contempt derived from 30 years of not being mauled. His luck ran out.

There was probably a fair amount of arrogance in his belief about his ability to control the situation.

[Magnum44]

Wild animals are...wild.

[PeterPrinciple]

‘I would be honored to end up in bear scat.’ ”

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Someone make a statute of bear scat so we can honor him.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/bear-scat-identification/

[PeterPrinciple]

The tricky nature of identifying bear scat comes from the spectrum of foods they eat, says Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks bear biologist Jamie Jonkel. Bear scats vary widely based on what food sources the omnivore is digesting. Different types of bear scats include:

Vegetation scats
Berry scats
Insect scats
Meat scats
Fish scats
Garbage scats
dumbass scats

[TangoLimaSierra]

The really sad thing about Treadwell incident was he brought his girlfriend with him on the fatal campout.
I've read that he was killed first, so his girlfriend watched him being killed and then watched the
bear approach her. Treadwell was a fool.

[BlackbirdSST]

Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear shats you out!

[paulcissa]

You can’t fix stupid.

[gettinolder]

While hunting SE Alaska mainland roughly 12 years ago I found a (huge) pile of brown bear crap. Sticking out of the top of the pile was a black bear claw, curious I dug through the pile with a stick and recovered an entire set of black bear claws.

Sat in my desk drawer for a few years along with an octopus beak I’d recovered from a very large halibut stomach.

[big truck]

“You can’t fix stupid.”

No, but apparently it is consumable.

[The_Harlequin]

Let this be a lesson of what happens when you’re not smarter than the average bear.

[libertylover]

Yeah, but the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with brown bears.

The Founding Fathers knew that someday We The People might have to take their government back from the totalitarians.

[riverrunner]

The 2nd amendment has to with all legitimate uses of firearms.

[sloanrb]

If that’s the case, then why does the second amendment mention “Bear Arms”? huh?

I’ll show myself out.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Actually, I believe bears are not stupid.

They would feign interest in philosopy just to get a....little closer.

[Towed_Jumper]

In the wilderness if you’re not at the top of the food chain then you’re on the menu.

[Big Red Badger]

Actually I think
Timothy Snackwell did have a Weapon and it was Used, A Large Cast Iron Skillet. I’m not sure if it was the girl friend or Tim.
The Audio Recording of the encounter is Very Tasty!

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RIP
MR.and Misses

[gundog]

Promised her a once-in-a-lifetime bear encounter....