[org.whodat]

A bear can take repeated fatal hits with 12 guage slugs and still kill you before dying. Really.

Talk about BS, this is BS.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I'm not a hunter, my father is. He shot and killed a No. American Black bear, on a hunting trip in Canada, many years ago. He was sitting in a tree stand, with a very powerful gun (Yes, I'm a woman, don't know the type of gun) and shot the bear, three times. Killed it.

Later, his friends teased him about shooting it three times, the first shot probably did it, alone. He agreed, they were probably right.

He said, with the adrenalin pumping, and the bear rising on it's hind legs, staring up at him in the tree... he didn't stop to think. He just shot and shot and shot.

He always wondered what would have happened if he had shot only once, and only injured the bear. Think the bear would have retaliated? Most certainly!

[templar]

Talk about BS, this is BS.

You need to learn something about bears before calling someones statement BS. Even weak little people often kill an attacker after receiving mulitple Fatal hits before they die. A bear is a very tough animal with thick hide and a lot of heavy fat. A charging bear is a very determined animal, you don't just sorta whack it on the nose with a newspaper to make it go away. An enraged female bear with cubs is,IMO, the most dangerous animal in North America, and a good contender for the most dangerous in the world. If you don't believe me and end up in a hostile encounter with a bear someday, you'll likely end up dead and not be around to tell the story.

I remember reading a story in a mag (Field and Stream, I think) about a hunter that encountered a female bear with cubs while bird hunting. It charged and he fired a twelve guage directly into it's mouth. It still attacked him and almost bit his head off, the only thing saving him being that he had blownn most of the bears jawbone away and it's jaw broke when it bit his skull (he thought he was hearing his skull breaking open). The bear went away after severely mauling him, leaving him for dead, and wildlife rangers persued it after rescuing him. The bear, when found, charged the rangers and took numerous 12 gauge hits, any of which would have been fatal by itself, before dying without giving up it's attack on the Rangers.

There used to be a fair sized stuffed brown bear (I think, it's been a long time since I saw it. It may have been a black bear) on display at a museum in denver that had been killed by a hunter. He shot it with an arrow and it almost tore him apart and then left him for dead. It was later found dead with the arrow penetrating it's heart. It was a female, presumably with cubs.