Do you have what it takes to kill a bear?

nope, i like bears too much

I would kill that damn bear. Thats right tree huggers! i said it. oops wrong group.

THATS RIGHT YOU ANIMAL ADVOCATES, I’D KILL ME A BEAR – THEN MAKE A NICE COAT OF IT!

first off never run from a bear if confronted lay down and cover your face the part about killing it that depends on if i was starving i guess while you was laying there if you really had to you could slice its throat hope ya got a pig pot to cook it in yummy

Your chances of killing an adult bear with a hunting knife are SLIM to NONE. Lying face down and trying to protect your neck my allow you to survive a bear attack (badly mauled) if it is a sow protecting it’s cubs, but if it’s looking for food you are lunch. A healthy bear is extremely strong. After a bear is skinned, the ropey muscles on its carcass make body builders look puny. Black bear occasionally kill deer and Grizzlies kill adult moose. Running may not save you as bears are much faster than humans, but if you can get out of the area where it feel threatened, you may get away. I’ve been told by guides in Northern Canada that a charging bear may be bluffing, but if one follows you – it is looking at you as lunch. I’ve harvested bear meat, but trying to do it with only a hunting knife isn’t bravery – it’s stupidity.

Since posting the above I’ve found a site that documents the killing of a an attacking bear with a hunting size knife (had dog to help) and the recent killing of 3 individuals by bear in Canada.

Now, if yout talking about a Grizzly, you may have what it takes mentally, but, with know guns, or things of that sort, you surely do not have it physically:

“Capt. Clark & Drewyer killed the largest brown bear this evening which we have yet seen. it was a most tremendious looking anamal, and extreemly hard to kill notwithstanding he had five balls through his lungs and five others in various parts he swam more than half the distance across the river to a sandbar & it was at least twenty minutes before he died; he did not attempt to attact, but fled and made the most tremendous roaring from the moment he was shot.”

“This morning a very large Bear of white Specis, discovered us floating in the water and takeing us, as I prosume to be Buffalow imediately plunged into the river and prosued us. I directed the men to be Still. this animal Came within about 40 yards of us, and tacked about. we all fired into him without killing him, and the wind So high that we could not pursue hi, by which means he made his escape to the Shore badly wounded.”

“I find that the curiossity of our party is pretty well satisfied with rispect to this anamal, the formidable appearance of the male bear killed on the 5th added to the difficulty with which they die when even shot through the vital parts, has staggered the resolution of several of them, others however seem keen for action with the bear; I expect these gentlemen will give us some amusement shotly as they soon begin now to coppolate.”

“…had shot a brown bear which immediately turned on him and pursued him a considerable distance but he had wounded it so badly that it could not overtake him; I immediately turned out with seven of the party in quest of this monster, we at length found his trale and persued him about a mile by the blood through very thick brush of rosbushes and the large leafed willow; we finally found him concealed in some very thick brush and shot him through the skull with two balls…”

“we proceeded dress him as soon as possible,…we now found that Bratton had shot him through the center of the lungs, notwithstanding which he had pursued him near half a mile and had returned more than double that distance and with his tallons had prepared himself a bed in the earth of about 2 feet deep and five long and was perfectly alive when we found him which could not have been less than 2 hours after he received the wound”

“these bear being so hard to die reather intimedates us all; I must confess that I do not like the gentlemen and had reather fight two Indians than one bear.”

“Six good hunters of the party fired at a Brown or Yellow Bear Several times before they killed him, & indeed he had like to have defeated the whole party, he pursued them Seperately as they fired on him, and was near Cattching Several of them one he pursued into the river, this bear was large & fat would way about 500 wt”

“he pursued two of them seperately so close that they were obliged to throw aside their guns and poucnes and throw themselves into the river altho’ the bank was nearly twenty feet perpendicular; so enraged was this animal that he plunged into the river only a few feet behind the second man he had compelled to take refuge in the water, when one of those who still remained on shore shot him through the head and finally killed him”

“Brackenridge then paraphrased Lewis’s record of the way the Indians prepare for a grizzly-bear hunt, and quoted the measurements Clark recorded of the bear he and Droulliard brought down on May 5, 1805, with ten bullets. Clark had estimated the beast weighed 500 pounds, but Lewis thought it was closer to 600. “Manuel Lisa,” Brackenridge continued, “informed me that they sometimes exceed 1,200 lbs. in weight, and that one full grown, will commonly weigh eight or nine hundred.”"

And to go with the above:

“But as naturalist Adolph Murie once remarked, “a bear a long distance from a scale always weighs more.”"

more:

“the Indians give a very formidable account of the strength and ferocity of this anamal, which they never dare to attack but in parties of six, eight or ten persons; and are even then frequently defeated with the loss of one or more of their party. the savages attack this anamal with their bows and arrows and the indifferent guns with which the traders furnish them, with these they shoot with such uncertainty and at so short a distance,…that they frequently mis their aim & fall a sacrefice to the bear….this anamall is said more frequently to attack a man on meeting with him, than to flee from him. When the Indians are about to go in quest of the white bear, previous to their departure, they paint themselves and perform all those supersticious rights commonly observed when they are about to make war uppon a neighbouring nation.”

all of the above from .

And:
“In the evening the men in two of the rear canoes descovered a large brown bear lying in the open grounds about 300 yds. from the river, and six of them went out to attack him, all good hunters; they took the advantage of a small eminince which concealed them and got within 40 paces of him unperceived; two of them reserved their fires as had been prevously concerted, and the four others fired nearly at the same time and each put his bullet through him, two of the balls passing through the bulk of both lobes of his lungs. in an instant the monster ran at them with open mouth, and the two who had reserved their fires discharged their pieces at him as he came towards them, both of them struck him, one only slightly and the other fortunately broke his shoulder, this however retarded his motion for a moment only, the men unable to reload their guns took flight, the bear pursued and had very nearly over taken them before they reached the river; two of the party betook themselves to a canoe and the others separated and concealed themselves among the willows, reloaded their pieces, each discharged his piece at him as they had an opportunity. They struck him several times again but the guns served only to direct the bear to them. In this manner he pursued two of them separately so close they they were obliged to throw aside their guns and pouches and throw themselves into the river although the bank was nearly 20 ft. perpendiular; so enraged was this animal that he plunged into the river a few feet behind the second man Š when one of those remaining on shore shot him through the head and finally killed him; they then took him to shore and buchered him when they found eight balls had passed through him in different directions.”

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The best thing to do would be, as the above said, show that you are not threatening it (fetal position), etc, and not run away. It may maul you a little, but it should stop and leave, as its aim is not to kill you, as they don’t kill things needlessly.
After it has done this, you should probably wait until you are sure it has left before actually left before getting up, etc, as this may once again provoke an attack, specially if the attack was carcass related (as it may stay near the carcass, and, seeing you get up may tell it you are once again attempting to steel it).
As you are walking, you should probably make noises, specifically Human related ones, so the Bear knows you are coming, and will hopefully leave, as most Grizzlies have a fear of Humans and will attempt to flee if it knows you are coming, not to mention if it knows you are coming, you can’t surprise it, which ocasionally does provoke an attack.

One of the best books about Bear attacks is:
Bear Attacks Their Causes and Avoidance
By Stephen Herrero.

Black Bears, on the other hand are quite different, though, with these, it is also recomended (by me) that you don’t attempt to really attack it, to be on the safe side, as, a 175lb Black Bear killed three adult people, two of which where men, and one of which was larger then the Bear, in a matter of minutes, at the Laird Hot Springs.

And, a little more for Black Bear attacks, they generally attack for a different reason, as they don’t have the dominant and aggressive personallity of a Grizzly, meaning that you can chase them off with a stick, as was mentioned above, aswell, in general. When a Black Bear does attack, it generally does so for predatory reasons, which means that showing your not threatening it would be a bad idea, but you should do the oposite, and attack it, to chase it off, though, in a real fight, you would probably lose (unless properly equiped, as, against a smaller Bear, with a spear, you may be able to hold your own), you should be able to intimidate it into submission, and backing up.

Well, I hope this helped…

I have been confronted with Black Bears here in California, but they always ran away as soon as they saw me, Black Bears in Canada just sat and stared at me. I worked up in the Arctic in Alaska and went through bear safety training for the Grizzlies and all we had for protection was “bear mace”. If I was really attacked….it would be very hard to win a fight against a bear if the bear was seriously trying to kill and eat me. I would definitely try and fight back, but don’t know if it would do much good. By the time you are actually suppossed to start fighting back…you can be pretty badly maimed!

i hope i will never have it..if a bear attack you just play dead and be in ball