I’m a Realtor and was walking a 36 acre parcel with a guy and he saw I was packing a .357. He said “if that’s for bears, you can forget it. I haven’t seen a bear in this county in 35 years”. 10 minutes later I said, “what’s that”? A black bear about 100 yards. He ran off. The bear I mean.
I knew an old guy who was hunting, he sat on an old dead log to smoke a cigarette and then he felt the log move. He slowly turned his head and it was a bear sitting on the other end of the log. He just sat there until the bear got up and walked away.