Yaa, I am thinking people who hand feed Polar Bears and leave food around to encourage more to forage near the camp are not likely to be proficient with a hand gun for self defense.
They are even less likely to actually shoot the bear, and if so, with any accuracy and likely way to late to pull the trigger.
“Yaa, I am thinking people who hand feed Polar Bears and leave food around to encourage more to forage near the camp are not likely to be proficient with a hand gun for self defense.”
They apparently used the gun as a noisemaker rather than a weapon. They did not shoot AT the bear. As the song says, “There’s your trouble”.
They fired to scare bears.
It didn’t work.
I can understand that. Many large predators are not impressed too much by loud noises. Note they were scared of active visuals of people swinging brooms. It’s interesting, because indeed firearms are not real active weapons. You can’t even really see the projectile.
So for scaring, not so good. Possibly stopping them, good.