Do you think that someone could really kill a bear with his bare hands?

[baldcore]

Bears are no different than any other predator. If you know the right places to strike at the right times you can easily kill just about anything whether it be lions, snakes, or anything else out there. Its all about having the right timing and right moves. Think of it as being like a raid boss. If you know what to do at the right time you can easily bring the boss down repeatedly. If you don't know squat than your chances of success are minimal at best.

[Khaza-R]

Possible? Of course, almost anything is possible. Plausible? Its probably about as plausible as a meteorite hitting the bear while you're fighting it.

[Jeina]

To be completely honest, he didn't kill it with his bare hands. He mutilated it with his bare hands and then killed it with a stick.

[tiporispit]

That story is hilarious. If we assumed it was a female for argument's sake, you're looking at 365 pounds of muscles, ending in 3 inch claws. A bite pressure of over 1,200 psi. Ok, we'll assume he rammed his arm down its throat and caused a gag reflex. It would probably break his fingers, wrist or arm as the animal yanked away, but it would of course, turn right back around and pounce again. The tearing out, or pinching off of it's jugular with a human bite is ludicrous. Want proof? Think of the last place you saw a bear skin rug. Now, go there. Wrap it around your arm. Ready? Try to even cause a bite mark on your arm, let alone penetrate the skin. Now imagine you have to penetrate the skin a couple centimeters and actually sever the flesh and the underlying vein... with a mouth full of thick, coarse hair. To those saying it was a pinch that caused unconsciousness, I say go back to anatomy class. Pinching off a vein does not cause an immediate unconsciousness (even though this pinch is impossible for above reasons). The only thing that can cause a 10 second KO like that is the carotid artery. Go ahead and wrap that bear skin around your buddy's neck and try to pinch his artery off. Now do that with your only leverage being an arm that is being shook violently in the mouth of a 400 pound monster. It's simply not possible.

I guess if it were a newborn female, with a shaved neck and the disposition of Mr Rogers... it would be a possibility. An adult female? If you believe that story, you're retarded. Read what this guy realized as he was about to die. Play dead. Fighting just makes them come at you more violently. Remember fight or flight? Yeah, you don't want the bear thinking it's a fight.

http://www.udap.com/markfullstory.htm

[medievalman1]

Wrong. He didn't break the jugular with his teeth, he pinched it, ceasing blood flow to the brain. It's called a "blood choke." and it takes roughly 10 seconds to induce unconsciousness with one, but a couple of minutes for it to be outright fatal. But if he was too exhausted to maintain the blood choke then it would have made sense to let go and beat it to death before it awoke.

Yeah, that'd be carotid, not jugular. Carotid arteries are the vessels that bring blood to the brain, jugular veins take blood away from the brain. In addition, a "blood choke" would require shutting the flow of both carotid arteries, not just one. At best that would just cause a stroke. So, you think (and it seems like you do by the way your post is written) this guy was able to pinch off the flow of blood in both carotid arteries through all the rather large layers of fur, epidermal tissue, dermal tissue, adipose tissue, and muscular tissue, with his teeth, on a bear, long enough to cause said bear to slip into unconsciousness, all while somehow not being killed or ripped apart by the ursine beastie?

[tiporispit]

Bears are no different than any other predator. If you know the right places to strike at the right times you can easily kill just about anything whether it be lions, snakes, or anything else out there. Its all about having the right timing and right moves. Think of it as being like a raid boss. If you know what to do at the right time you can easily bring the boss down repeatedly. If you don't know squat than your chances of success are minimal at best.

Completely and utterly wrong. Male Grizzlies average 600 pounds. They fight viciously over territory and breeding rights. Even other grizzlies can't knock grizzlies unconscious. If you think you can KO a bear by hitting it on the button, you're insane. It's a matter of physics. Power to weight and momentum. Mike Tyson punching a bear in the weakest point on its body would have ZERO effect. None. The human jaw is unable to open wide enough, penetrate deep enough or generate enough force to cause any nerve or circulatory damage through the bear's size and hair, which evolved to lessen damage from their own kind. Even bears don't cause much damage to other bears 90% of the time. Even if the bear decided to take a nap and slept so soundly it didn't notice you, you'd be hard pressed to gnaw through its neck. When a monstrous beast is tossing you around while you're trying to do it? LULZ

[808tiger]

Completely and utterly wrong. Male Grizzlies average 600 pounds. They fight viciously over territory and breeding rights. Even other grizzlies can't knock grizzlies unconscious. If you think you can KO a bear by hitting it on the button, you're insane. It's a matter of physics. Power to weight and momentum. Mike Tyson punching a bear in the weakest point on its body would have ZERO effect. None. The human jaw is unable to open wide enough, penetrate deep enough or generate enough force to cause any nerve or circulatory damage through the bear's size and hair, which evolved to lessen damage from their own kind. Even bears don't cause much damage to other bears 90% of the time. Even if the bear decided to take a nap and slept so soundly it didn't notice you, you'd be hard pressed to gnaw through its neck. When a monstrous beast is tossing you around while you're trying to do it? LULZ

I think we owe it to our loved ones to at least try to defend ourselves or scare it off. Poke the bear in the eye. Break the bears jaw and it can't eat you, but it probably can still kill you. I've seen documentaries where a person shoved a hand down a crocodiles throat and the crocodile released them.

[Xirrohon]

Not a chance. Lol And definitely even less of that against a Grizzly.

[Galactis]

In mother Russia, human attack bear; and bear loses.

[Ghostpanther]

Depends on the type of bear. Small, juvenile black ones? Maybe. Large grizzlies or Kodiak's? Odds have to be astronomically against it being successful.

[Independent voter]

This bear? When it was alive?

Even if he didn't hit you with the claw part, he'd hit you so hard it'd break every bone in your body.

[Galactis]

This bear? When it was alive?

Even if he didn't hit you with the claw part, he'd hit you so hard it'd break every bone in your body.

Maybe, but it would hurt for sure. You would have to outsmart the bear is all.

[Nihilist74]

I wonder how realistic it would be to even kill a bear like in this scene from the movie, "The Edge."

[Citizen T]

Please do not necro threads. closing now...