[PTBAA]

If a grizzly is close enough for you to punch, you are at your last ditch option.

[z3n]

If a grizzly is close enough for you to punch, you are at your last ditch option.

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Maybe not.
I don’t understand why a bear would be close enough to you for you to punch, but not gashing you with it’s claws or pouncing down on you with it’s weight and subsequently taking a big bite. It would be odd for a bear to be that close but not on a full aggressive charge, but if he was, then maybe he wasn’t being aggressive toward you at all and you were just in it’s way, in which case a punch in the snout could be a provocation.
If a bear is just doing a threat display, it tends to stand back and make very aggressive noises and posturing.

[Delta 21]

“By that point, a lot of things will have gone wrong,”