I don't know how I'd react, but hopefully I'd run and get help. I'm not fighting off a grizzly unless I have some kind of weapon with me.
Need more info
Maybe
No
Yes
I don't know how I'd react, but hopefully I'd run and get help. I'm not fighting off a grizzly unless I have some kind of weapon with me.
Depends if they're as cool as Brienne of 'Motherfucking' Tarth
Then yeah, I'll do a Jamie Lannister and help.
And his goes for you. You are saying that bears can't be scared off because they're big and strong. Too bad that size doesn't determine bravery. Hence why large animals can be scared of their damn shadows or a snake.
You don't fight off bears. You stand tall and make them want to not fight you. Numbers helps that.
Beat? no,
make a difference? potentially,
Like all animals, everything has a weak point and for the bulk of animals, eyes. Personally if I saw my friend being mauled, I'd be picking up the first branch to hand and trying to ram it into the socket (Or maybe Id run away like a little bitch, no one knows how they would react). It would either severly piss it off and make it kill both of you, or it might be enough to make it back off and think twice,
11 dead from bears in over 100 years? literally a non issue, Americans kill more each day with firearms, or die from old age and other issues, or probably die from drug related issues etc, i don't have facts but you could probably find a list where more people die from X in a day than bears have killed in 100 years.
- - - Updated - - -
tell the truth, you just want a golden hand instead to slap people with.
If the first claw / bite isn't fatal, the next few certainly will be.
Leaving a person is writing them off for dead. You aren't getting help.
Helping them yourself.... is tough, almost impossible... and places you at great risk. It's also the only chance your friend has.
This is a no win scenario.
The only thing that I would make sure I do for my friend is make sure that I am the one that runs faster. Then again if I was in Grizzly country with anything less than a 300 Weatherby Magnum the Bear would have some challenge catching me as it would be much too busy slipping in the shit. As I shit my pants and then climbed the smallest three, that was just large enough for the bear to not knock down.
There is no Bad RNG just Bad LTP
Unless I was packing something that would either incapacitate the bear or drive it off, I would honor my friends noble sacrifice and gtfo. Bears are big angry wrecking eating machines you wont deter it unarmed, no point in giving the bear two free meals.
I live in the United States, in a State where my God given Right to self defense is covered in out Constitution, under the Second Amendment.
I live in Wisconsin, we have bear country here. I'm usually armed anywhere I go regardless, due to two legged predators.
I carry a 10MM
I'd shoot it.
All I have to say is there are two things that would thankfully keep me from every having to make such a choice.
1) Lack of any idiot friends who want to peddle ass through Grizzly Bear country.
2) My lack of any desire to attend such activities with any friends that don't pass the idiot check in 1.
There is no Bad RNG just Bad LTP
Bears don't typically charge straight in to attack. They almost always watch, size up, and try to threaten to get their foes to leave without fight. They are very curious creatures, they aren't going to run out of the woods and tackle you at first sight.
- - - Updated - - -
What makes them idiots? That they enjoy a sporting activity outside where there happen to be animals? I've had bear encounters 2 miles outside of a town on a small trail, guess I better not go there anymore! Let's live in fear of animals that are essentially never going to bother us.
Also: I fixed your post for you. <3
There is no "fighting off" a grizzly bear. Black bears, sure, you can stand a chance. Grizzly? Nope, you'll both be dead.
http://thingsihaveneverdone.wordpress.com
Just started my 24/7 LoFi stream. Come listen!
https://youtu.be/3uv1pLbpQM8
I'd help them fight it off on the assumption, that like any sane person going out into wilderness where bear attacks are a legitimate possibility, we have some kind of high-power sidearm chosen specifically for large predators in mind, like a 10mm or .454 or, screw it, S&W 500.
Yeah. These same arm chair quarterbacks would answer a thread about a Great White Shark by "well did you try punching it in the nose to dissuade it from biting you the second time?".
- - - Updated - - -
oh no. it is completely paranoid to be prepared for a predatory animal attack in known predatory attack country...............
There is no Bad RNG just Bad LTP
I'd pull a Shane and shoot him in the kneecap so there's slower prey than me.
Last edited by MrPaladinGuy; 2016-06-30 at 08:38 PM.
10850k (10c 20t) @ all-core 5GHz @ 1.250v | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra Gaming | 32GB DDR4 3200 | 1TB M.2 OS/Game SSD | 4TB 7200RPM Game HDD | 10TB 7200 RPM Storage HDD | ViewSonic XG2703-GS - 27" IPS 1440p 165Hz Native G-Sync | HP Reverb G2 VR Headset
If the grizzly has attacked your friend already, then you can't scare it: it is in the aggressive mode already. The only thing you can hope to achieve is to attract grizzly's attention to yourself, so he will give up on your friend temporarily and go for you first - and you both will be dead. Scaring can only work before the engagement, and even then it is extremely risky with bears, and survival experts typically recommend to, instead, very slowly back away, so the bear loses interest.
So the only chance you have at saving your friend is to quickly kill the grizzly. For which you would need something like a chaingun, probably.
http://thingsihaveneverdone.wordpress.com
Just started my 24/7 LoFi stream. Come listen!
https://youtu.be/3uv1pLbpQM8