Anybody with any sense at ALL would never just shoot one of these monsters and leave it to die. I'd shoot it until I was out of ammo, and I always carry lots of ammo. I wouldn't want to take the chance that that thing would take a swat at me with its dying breath.
Alot of people here in alaska feed their dogs dried salmon, throw a dog a salmon a day and yu have happiest/fattest dogs around. But those racks full of drying salmon also bring in the bear; had a neighbor shoot a 600 lb bear couple years back that was tearing up his fish racks. Also in bear country, you can't leave garbage outside or like dogfood on the porch ect.
I keep a dogteam and those dogs on their chains notice and smell everything within a mile. Even the blk bear that live down at lower elevations won't come within a mile of my place cause they don't want all those dogs yapping at them, no joke.
I live in real bear country along the yukon; F&G is getting ready to kill about a 100 grizz to help the moose calf survival ratio; we have more bear than those parks in lower 48 ever dreamed about. If you walk the road, you carry a rifle. I actually had more problems with coons in my sweet corn back east than I have ever had with bears up here in alaska; haven't had to get the antifreeze out yet.
Food supply also makes a big difference how aggressive bears become. In some places in alaska, the bear have so much fish to eat; they can barely move and believe it or not there have been bear lovers that attempt to pet those kinds of bear (until they became supper); other places they are always hungry and cause problems in relation to people.
I know for a fact that that is sound wisdom.
