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"Consider if the man had a spear instead of a pole. The bear could have sustained a deadly chest wound if the man had used slightly different tactics at the beginning."

And while he was struggling to pull the spear from the first bear, the second bear would have eaten his face.

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And while he was struggling to pull the spear from the first bear, the second bear would have eaten his face.

Possible, I suppose. I notice the second bear wasn't even willing to get as close as the first bear. The man picked up a second pole immediately, which could have been a second spear.

People have killed bears with spears for thousands of years. It helps if you have several people and dogs.

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Landscape With Bear Hunting 1598 Egbert Jansz

Bears were extirpated from England by about 600 AD.

Bears were eliminated in most populated areas of Western Europe by 1900. Some survived in those places where people were rare, such as remote mountains and forests.