“The use of handguns to defend against bear attacks has been shown to be effective 98% of the time. “
Knowing my luck, I’d be in the 2%................š«
Here are three of the four failures. It is not hard to understand why they were failures.
https://www.ammoland.com/2022/04/lessons-from-handgun-defense-failures-against-bears/
The fourth failure was a failure of warning shots to drive off polar bears. No one was injured.
Still 49 times better odds than bare (no pun intended) hands.