[Red Badger]

There may be political reasons why the person with the .44 handgun was not willing to shoot the bear; or maybe the person shooting the .44 handgun simply missed. There is no indication the bear was injured.

Need more range time....................

[marktwain]

There may be political reasons why the person with the .44 handgun was not willing to shoot the bear; or maybe the person shooting the .44 handgun simply missed. There is no indication the bear was injured.

Need more range time....................

There has been enormous pressure not to shoot problem bears, especially polar bears.

In fact, most of the polar bear populations have either grown or have stabilized. The idea polar bears were endangered has been a "climate change" myth, now shown to be false.

Polar bears were overhunted, but they were never in danger of extinction. When the hunting was stopped in 1976, the population has rebounded, just as you would predict.