[headsonpikes]

"What was he planning to do? ...Debate it? Even then I think the bear would have had the advantage."

Gotta be pretty stupid to take on a bear unarmed!

Although I knew a fellow who knocked out a bear with a punch.

Really. He was strong and lucky.

[ZULU]

Wasa his name Daniel Boone??

Carl Akley, a famous big game hunter in the early 1900's, strangled a leopard with his bare hands, but I wouldn't suggest either pasttime to a person who values their life.