If I siberian mother bear decided you were going to be food for her young and was actually hunting you, you are food. It doesn't matter how many or how big your gun is... you wouldn't have a chance to use it.Personally I am not afraid of wild animals and would fare well if I needed to protect myself. People seem to forget predators live everywhere and make their living by being hard to spot, just know that the next time you are on that natural walking path or in the state park fishing there could be a cougar or bear around the next bend waiting for something they can overtake to stroll by, lunch.
very well saidMan eating bears have to be killed. Thats why canandian national park rangers will hunt a man eating bear for a week or more. Very few bear interactions end with a attemp to eat a human. We are not a natural prey item for bears. Like I said I have seen dozens of bears. Albeit most of them black bears. But i have had two grizzly encounters. The first was a mom and cubs and they were already running away from me by the time i seen them. The second was a lone grizzly that investigated our fishing party. it also ended up running away when we started yelling. None of these bears looked at us as food. Thats normal. But its rough out there in the wild and sick, injured, and or starving bears are very dangerous. Old bears that cant compete for food are also at a higher risk to attack. If a old bear finds it can easily catch a human and eat it, there is a problem.If allowed to live that bear will try and eat a human whenever it can. That bear needs to be retired from life. If a mom bear mauls a person to defend its young than flees it is not killed most of the time. As long as it doesnt feed or kill the human. I love bears and dont want to see them killed for no reason.
Just so u dont think i made this up heres the link the story came fromI honestly don't understand why people defend animals that kill humans. If an animal did nothing to hurt a human, I have no problem defending that animals. The lack of compassion shown to fellow human beings is sickening. I'm not sure if this story is real or not, but if it is, I am deeply sorry for her.. To lose 2 loved ones is hard enough, but to listen as one of them dies is just terrible..