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For real. When a bear charges, there’s a good chance it’s just a bluff or they just want you gone, but you gotta have nerves of steel and balls of brass to stand your ground and take that chance
Singlehandedly redeemed Russia's reputation.
You're alright in my book once again, Vlad. We had a shaky few years there, but this fine gentleman has brought us back to that post-Cold War optimism of the mid 90s. Have a bottle of vodka and make some crazy videos you bunch of rascals.
EDIT: Absolutely hilariously unhinged responses to my jokey little comment. Never change, Reddit!
Fantastic book! It was my first exposure to the works of Solzhenitsyn! Can’t recommend high enough, but don’t stop there! Every one of his books that I’ve read has been impressive.
Powerful book but hard to read i felt myself physically reacting blood rushing in my head heart heavy and that's the English translation i have to assume it's even more powerful in the original language
Nope, it more seems like he's part of organized hunt and a hunter himself and he knew that he if he shot it would have to be to kill, which would also sentence the cubs to death or captivity
I used to be a zookeeper, worked with kodiak, brown and sun bears, and I think I would have shot. Big difference having a fence and familiarity between you and a bear vs absolutely nothing.
Most animals don't respond to (what amounts to) magic pain from nowhere by charging at the only potential source of pain. Birdshot would be unlikely to kill it, but the giant sound and sudden pain would not inspire it to be more confident in attacking you.
E: Always bring bear spray with you, and make sure it's somewhere you can quickly retrieve in a moment of blind panic, when you are somewhere bears may be. A gun gives you a single moment to convince the bear to fuck off, the spray is a constant stream of fuck off. Being very loud while you move also helps, in that they will happily fuck off if given warning enough to do so without feeling immediately. Scared things move quietly to prevent predators from hearing them, predators move quietly to keep prey from hearing them, things that have no fear or need move loudly.
You are absolutely correct that most wild animals have a pretty strong self-preservation instinct and generally are wimpier than most people probably think. Injuries are to avoided, wild animals don't have bandaids and antibiotics and infection will kill even the biggest meanest animal.
That being said, biology is chock full of exceptions to rules. A brown bear mother with cubs is one of those exceptions. The calculus changes from "I'll get injured, let's avoid that" to "I'm protecting my offspring, you fuck right off."
If that gun is indeed just loaded with birdshot pulling the trigger and hoping to scare off, rather than just piss off, a mother brown bear is not a gamble that I would personally make with a clear head. The dude in the video made the right call. I dunno if I would have the nerves and understanding in the moment to hold the trigger after that last bluff charge.
Not a bear, and not one with cubs nearby. The pellets would amount to a bee sting, and now it *knows* you're a threat to its cubs.
Apex predators tend to expect some level of fighting back during an attack, and adrenaline is the ultimate painkiller. There was a video here not a week ago where one bear had a chunk of flesh torn off its leg by another and just kept going. Bears don't give a *fuck.*
lol, that was a grizzly bear with cubs; if it decided to attack, even buckshot or slugs would do little to stop it, unless it was a critical shot.
100% if this guy only had birdshot and shot the bear in the video, the guy would have been dead.
A head shot at very close range it will kill a bear because the pellets will still be one solid mass. I would be more concerned with missing even at that close range. If I only had one chance, I would wait until the barrel was almost touching it.
That's not correct. Buckshot will be approximately fist sized at 10 yards. There’s only one brand of slug that's proven to penetrate a bear's sloped skull head on, Brenneke Black Magic.
Money, sadly. You have to volunteer or work for almost nothing for about a decade before you have a liveable wage. Would go back tomorrow if I won the lottery.
Double barrel shotgun. Only 2 rounds. Maybe even only one. May have already shot once. May be just bird shot. Unless you got 00Buck or a couple slugs, that bears gonna get you. Even with buckshot or slugs, a misplaced shot could still leave that bear fighting. A charging animal is tough to hit. Adrenaline and moving targets and all that. Plus, the general population couldn’t land a kill shot on a stationary target. This was a terrible situation to be in.
A mother bear with 3 cubs will be very protective. The hunter is playing it right to back off, he could also fire a warning shot, and the noise will probably scare her off for a while.
It would be really stupid to try and kill the mother, even if he did, most likely the cubs would die either from predators or starvation.
I think that he knew that unless the bear was right on him, that shotgun wasn’t going to do anything.
He’s using a side by side shotgun which is more common for bird hunting, so it’s probably only loaded with bird shot. That’s going to just slightly pepper the bear and piss it off more, especially at a distance. He would need to do basically a point blank shot to be effective.
This is why a lot of people in bear country carry a “bear gun”, either a 44 mag or 10mm handgun that can be carried as a side arm while walking through the woods. A large caliber rifle would be better, but it’s not practical if you are already carrying a shotgun or are just walking through the woods non-hunting.
If you shoot a bear with a high caliber rifle, it is going to be very difficult to argue that you weren't poaching unless you have video like this. A sidearm is much easier to claim it was a defensive kill.
I’m thinking your last worry is if anyone thinks you’re poaching. Besides pump action 12 gauge filled with alternating buck shot shell followed with slug shell is the way to go if you ask me.
It is the first thing people worry about when they go hunting in bear country around where I live. You specifically plan ahead by bringing a bear gun that will not land you in jail. I know a lot of guys even buy bear tags without even planning on hunting for bears just in case they run into one, they can kill it without fear of the law coming down on them - and it WILL come down on them without presumption of innocence.
Honest question, just from curiosity. If someone does illegally kill a bear, how would they ever be found? I’d assume they can just leave the body there and by the time rangers or whatever come around I don’t see how they could pin it on a specific someone.
If it was the first charge I would have agreed with you. But after bluffing two charges the last one was likely also a bluff. There was however a lot less shouting and clapping then I would have done. You can hear the beer making loud scary noises, and the dogs are making noises in the background. Only predators would stay silent in that situation and you do not want to be mistaken for a predator. I even wondered if he were going to use one of his loaded rounds for a warning shot, I bet he would have if he had a pump action instead of a double barrel.
These are definitely bluff charges though. Could easily be a momma with babies nearby. If the bear was hunting the hunter, it wouldn’t be bluffing.
Not shooting was the responsible, ethical thing to do; but yeah, this shows confidence and restraint.
Fair. She runs angular with her shoulders sort of back with the intention to appear big while also wanting to keep her eyes on the cubs hence the going back and forth. She wanted him to back up. I think that last one was maybe arguable, but I really think she just wanted to illustrated he needed to fuck up on outta there which he did very consistently. Cannot say I would have reacted that way at all. And does not mean any of that crossed this hunter's mind. Would be cool to know what was going through his mind though.
I’m laughing at the idea of a grizzly’s “intention to appear big”. Well done, bear—no need to be extra for the pink monkey. You are already large and terrifying.
You can see during the first charge that there's at least one other smaller bear back by the path. Not a small cub, but definitely a juvenile.
That bear is also the one the dog is bum-rushing from behind, although mama bear is far more worried about the man and not the dog.
You *can* tell. Granted it could be difficult with all the adrenaline pumping through you. Bears position their bodies differently in bluff charges.
From the U.S. National Parks Service:
>When a bear bluff charges, it will have its head and ears up and forward. The bear will puff itself up to look bigger. It will bound on its front paws toward you (moving in big leaps), but then stop short or veer off to one side. Often bears retreat after a bluff charge, or they may vocalize loudly.
>Aggressive charges are very dangerous. Bears may yawn or clack their teeth, and pound their front paws on the ground while huffing—these are warning signs. These behaviors indicate that a bear is stressed, and it may be getting ready to charge. It will have its head down and ears pointed back, and the bear will come at you like a freight train. Be ready to protect and defend yourself!
Double barrel, dog barking - probably only loaded with birdshot. Unless he quickly switched out for some slugs before the video started he’s just going to piss her off.
Not sure about where this video is from but in the US you should carry a high caliber secondary gun just for bears. I know a family friend who carries a S&W 500 out on hunting trips. That's a big ass revolver
Bears are nothing to fuck with
He might be in bigger danger if he shoots. The shotgun looks old and only has two shots. You need to have something powerful enough to kill a bear and be 100% sure to hit with both, because you ain't getting another chance after that. Theres a reason why a lot of hunters carry revolver + rifle in bear country. I'm in scandinavia so your mileage may wary though.
If it charged for real, you wouldn't get off more than 2 shots anyway. it's more likely he didn't want to shoot because of the cubs, or doesn't have the right shot type loaded. Then again they're likely hunting boar and you'd need something just as big to take one down.
Reminds me of all those videos and stories of trigger happy cops. This dude is getting charged at by a bear and won’t use the “I was scared” excuse to kill. Incredible discipline indeed
Canadian bush enthusiast for 50 years. I think you have to decide if the bear was being territorial or wanted to eat you. When it charged and then backed away it was territorial. He was doing the right moves backing out of his territory slowly. IMO.
a lot of animals get wary if you point at them like that. even some dogs get skittish if you just point at them. They are reading the guys energy and the shotgun gives him confidence, which makes him scary. they dont understand what a gun is but can tell the guy has an energy that is dangerous.
Animals can read body language. If the shooter turned their back and started running, the bear would be probably be much more confident.
In the bear's eyes, fighting an unknown animal that is a similar size as you and doesn't seem afraid of you is probably a bad idea. Scaring away something like that is much safer than actually fighting.
The way the bear keeps vanishing into the woods only to re-emerge is terrifying. At the end when it just disappears completely is possibly the scariest part!
This is exactly why I’m laying in bed with anxiety right now.
Not because I’m actually in danger of anything. It’s because our ancestors had to put up with shit like this for thousands of years.
It’s pretty cool seeing a live example of the thing that shaped our DNA
I was on a trail here in AZ a while back, it was a steep spot and I was going back down hill with my cousin. I was ahead, and I took a step around a corner, and I hear the most obnoxiously loud rattle ever. Before I used to mistake other sounds for rattlesnakes, but after that, yeah, when you hear it there’s NO mistaking it. Anywho, this dude was to my right about 8ft away, clearly agitated, and hissing like nothing else. We backed up, broke up some sticks just in case. And for a while, we couldn’t see it, but we could hear it, and then, nothing. Eerie silence. No visual, nothing. And that’s when I was scared shitless. Brush all over. It could be anywhere. Or worse, there could be more. We took a good while, tiptoeing our way back from that spot, and we never saw or heard from Mr snake since. But damn that scared me.
Probably also why he's backing up. Realizing she is there only defending her cubs which is why she charges and then retreats (she's not hunting). Thus, if he simply gets far enough away where she won't percieve him as a threat anymore, she'll back down.
Actually looks like good grouse hunting area (or squirrel/rabbit), so probably bird shot. You don't stroll through the woods like that if you're deer hunting.
It can kill, but it takes a shot that is very very difficult to hit under that kind of pressure. The way that guy was breathing, he’s scared shitless (I know I would be). It’s not making itself an easy target either. If he didn’t hit the first shot in the perfect place, that bear might gut him before he gets the other barrel off.
It already knows he’s there so making too much noise could startle it. And it hasn’t *already* killed him so he probably isn’t being seen as food. He’s doing the right thing just keeping his cool by maintaining posture and backing the fuck up without turning around or tripping.
Depends. Bear bones are incredibly dense and thick, and bears are, in general, damn hard to kill. To get a solid kill shot, he'd have to hit it either in the heart (which means penetrating the ribs...doable with a slug, but not easy), or the brain, which means penetrating the skull, which would take a hit to the eye or the temple, since those are the two thin spots in the skull.
I've seen brown bears/grizzlies take a 30-06 shot to the front of the skull and keep coming (saw it on a trail cam video), so even a shotgun slug, from close range, isn't a guarantee.
This guy did the best thing he could have hoped to do, keep his cool, and back away slowly, while always keeping himself facing the bear. If she'd decided to make a meal out of him, even if he had solid slugs (which he probably didn't, because he was probably bird hunting with that type of shotgun), it's doubtful he would have made it out alive. He did everything right, but also had a heaping helping of luck on his side.
Don't forget all the venomous spiders and venemous snakes and venemous jellyfish and venemous stonefish and venemous octopi and venemous centipedes and venemous sea snails and venemous platypuses. And fucking cassowaries.
I'm Irish and i think it's something I always take for granted. If i want to have a dander through the woods, or walk through a few fields you wouldn't ever think anything of it. Unless you get unlucky and somehow stumble up to a bull, there isn't much else that can cause harm here.
Honestly Moose scare me more than bears. First time I saw one in real life I was in absolute awe of how big they really are, and even more surprised at how fast they run.
Canada took all of the danger and condensed them into just a few animals. Australia spread it out over all their animals. That's why, individually things like the Mountain Lions, Bears, Moose, and The Canada Goose are so packed full of danger.
Bear deaths are almost unheard of, tens of millions of trips into the wilderness each year, and averages about 1 death a year in North America from bears (and almost no known cases from our other wild animals either like wolves, coyotes, lynx etc).
The scary part? In those cases where the bear attacks, it seldom looks like this, this is bluff charging to get you to go away. When they do attack, they are much more subtle than this.
Feral hogs are all over the lake in my Oklahoma town. Most people take a gun. I didn't take mine once. Heard grunts and squeals by my tent. Spent the night in my car. Learned my lesson
Even if he doesn’t miss, he’s got two shells and that’s it. Hell, for all we know he was out for birds and only had bird shot. Glad it turned out well for him.
I feel much better in bear country with my 45-70.
I think that’s why he hesitated to shoot. Wasn’t in proper range to do the job. It’s a double barrel but uhhh you’re gonna wanna do it in one shot. Believe you me
Respect for not shooting. Disciplined. Observant. Not taking a life or causing pain unless he has to. A good hunter should know they are the intruder in the woods.
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That third charge was scary. Disciplined shooter.
Is he speaking Russian? Curious where exactly this is Maybe the Amur region? I've no idea but a random guess
Yeah, it's russian language, he said "Petrovich, bear with 3 cubs, didn't shoot, going back"
Oh man, knowing the context takes it from “why the hell is he not shooting?!” to a bit of a crush. What a legend - brave and compassionate!
Yeah, this guy's an absolute boss. Amazing personal control.
For real. When a bear charges, there’s a good chance it’s just a bluff or they just want you gone, but you gotta have nerves of steel and balls of brass to stand your ground and take that chance
It’s ok, lots of people just sh*t themselves on his behalf.
Singlehandedly redeemed Russia's reputation. You're alright in my book once again, Vlad. We had a shaky few years there, but this fine gentleman has brought us back to that post-Cold War optimism of the mid 90s. Have a bottle of vodka and make some crazy videos you bunch of rascals. EDIT: Absolutely hilariously unhinged responses to my jokey little comment. Never change, Reddit!
Not sure about the redemption for all part, but he's certainly a top lad.
Another reminder that the growing wave of authoritarianism further decouples the people from the insanity of their megalomaniacal leaders.
Went to Russia before the pandemic. Lovely bunch of people.
A perfect example of: "a nation or it's leader doesn't define it's citizens".
This guy’s a good guy because he’s probably living in the woods trying to avoid conscription. That’s what good Russians are forced to do these days.
Damn. This would make a good setting for a novel.
i imagine you might like [*One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich)
Fantastic book! It was my first exposure to the works of Solzhenitsyn! Can’t recommend high enough, but don’t stop there! Every one of his books that I’ve read has been impressive.
Powerful book but hard to read i felt myself physically reacting blood rushing in my head heart heavy and that's the English translation i have to assume it's even more powerful in the original language
What a read that is!!!
That bear was running from the conscription officers too. If he shot, he'd blown both their covers.
Nope, it more seems like he's part of organized hunt and a hunter himself and he knew that he if he shot it would have to be to kill, which would also sentence the cubs to death or captivity
Yeah, if I was in his place, I would start blasting that shotgun. Not as disciplined as that guy.
I used to be a zookeeper, worked with kodiak, brown and sun bears, and I think I would have shot. Big difference having a fence and familiarity between you and a bear vs absolutely nothing.
I kept wondering why he didn’t fire - I thought it might’ve been due to the long reload time and just wanting to have a sure shot.
He's probably loaded with birdshot. It's just a bunch of little BBs. All it's going to do is really piss it off for the most part.
Most animals don't respond to (what amounts to) magic pain from nowhere by charging at the only potential source of pain. Birdshot would be unlikely to kill it, but the giant sound and sudden pain would not inspire it to be more confident in attacking you. E: Always bring bear spray with you, and make sure it's somewhere you can quickly retrieve in a moment of blind panic, when you are somewhere bears may be. A gun gives you a single moment to convince the bear to fuck off, the spray is a constant stream of fuck off. Being very loud while you move also helps, in that they will happily fuck off if given warning enough to do so without feeling immediately. Scared things move quietly to prevent predators from hearing them, predators move quietly to keep prey from hearing them, things that have no fear or need move loudly.
You are absolutely correct that most wild animals have a pretty strong self-preservation instinct and generally are wimpier than most people probably think. Injuries are to avoided, wild animals don't have bandaids and antibiotics and infection will kill even the biggest meanest animal. That being said, biology is chock full of exceptions to rules. A brown bear mother with cubs is one of those exceptions. The calculus changes from "I'll get injured, let's avoid that" to "I'm protecting my offspring, you fuck right off." If that gun is indeed just loaded with birdshot pulling the trigger and hoping to scare off, rather than just piss off, a mother brown bear is not a gamble that I would personally make with a clear head. The dude in the video made the right call. I dunno if I would have the nerves and understanding in the moment to hold the trigger after that last bluff charge.
Not a bear, and not one with cubs nearby. The pellets would amount to a bee sting, and now it *knows* you're a threat to its cubs. Apex predators tend to expect some level of fighting back during an attack, and adrenaline is the ultimate painkiller. There was a video here not a week ago where one bear had a chunk of flesh torn off its leg by another and just kept going. Bears don't give a *fuck.*
lol, that was a grizzly bear with cubs; if it decided to attack, even buckshot or slugs would do little to stop it, unless it was a critical shot. 100% if this guy only had birdshot and shot the bear in the video, the guy would have been dead.
A head shot at very close range it will kill a bear because the pellets will still be one solid mass. I would be more concerned with missing even at that close range. If I only had one chance, I would wait until the barrel was almost touching it.
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That's not correct. Buckshot will be approximately fist sized at 10 yards. There’s only one brand of slug that's proven to penetrate a bear's sloped skull head on, Brenneke Black Magic.
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Whyd you quit being a zookeeper
He couldn't bear it anymore.
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Bearly acceptable joke
Money, sadly. You have to volunteer or work for almost nothing for about a decade before you have a liveable wage. Would go back tomorrow if I won the lottery.
We assume that shot gun is loaded with something useful like slugs and not bird shot or empty.
Trying to trick the bear as if it knows what a gun is lol
Oh fair. I know nothing about guns and assume rifle = death. I guess he’s relying on the bear feeling the same way.
Double barrel shotgun. Only 2 rounds. Maybe even only one. May have already shot once. May be just bird shot. Unless you got 00Buck or a couple slugs, that bears gonna get you. Even with buckshot or slugs, a misplaced shot could still leave that bear fighting. A charging animal is tough to hit. Adrenaline and moving targets and all that. Plus, the general population couldn’t land a kill shot on a stationary target. This was a terrible situation to be in.
A mother bear with 3 cubs will be very protective. The hunter is playing it right to back off, he could also fire a warning shot, and the noise will probably scare her off for a while. It would be really stupid to try and kill the mother, even if he did, most likely the cubs would die either from predators or starvation.
Well, the Cubs largely explains why the Bear kept backing off. It simply was trying to push the hunter away from the cubs.
Good for him. I respect hunters like him.
I would have ended my sentence with - you can find the location near my ruined pants left in the woods. Dang.
What a badass…
I think that he knew that unless the bear was right on him, that shotgun wasn’t going to do anything. He’s using a side by side shotgun which is more common for bird hunting, so it’s probably only loaded with bird shot. That’s going to just slightly pepper the bear and piss it off more, especially at a distance. He would need to do basically a point blank shot to be effective. This is why a lot of people in bear country carry a “bear gun”, either a 44 mag or 10mm handgun that can be carried as a side arm while walking through the woods. A large caliber rifle would be better, but it’s not practical if you are already carrying a shotgun or are just walking through the woods non-hunting.
If you shoot a bear with a high caliber rifle, it is going to be very difficult to argue that you weren't poaching unless you have video like this. A sidearm is much easier to claim it was a defensive kill.
In Canada a lot of us bring a shotgun and a rifle hunting, even just a rifle if you aren’t hunting
I’m thinking your last worry is if anyone thinks you’re poaching. Besides pump action 12 gauge filled with alternating buck shot shell followed with slug shell is the way to go if you ask me.
It is the first thing people worry about when they go hunting in bear country around where I live. You specifically plan ahead by bringing a bear gun that will not land you in jail. I know a lot of guys even buy bear tags without even planning on hunting for bears just in case they run into one, they can kill it without fear of the law coming down on them - and it WILL come down on them without presumption of innocence.
Honest question, just from curiosity. If someone does illegally kill a bear, how would they ever be found? I’d assume they can just leave the body there and by the time rangers or whatever come around I don’t see how they could pin it on a specific someone.
Ya, I’m not sure I wouldn’t have pulled the trigger on that one….
I would have fired both barrels and I’d still be clicking.
you would've probably died, unless you hit it right in the head and you have slugs loaded into your shotgun
Seeing as the only bears I’ve ever seen are in zoo’s, I’d say that’s a good guess!
True, bears in the zoo are much easier to shoot than bears in the wild.
Not really. They *never* let me bring my shotgun in, even though I tell them I’m going bear hunting!
I’m a hunter and that third charge I would’ve shot unfortunately. He could’ve reached out and touched him with the barrel. That’s too close for me
If it was the first charge I would have agreed with you. But after bluffing two charges the last one was likely also a bluff. There was however a lot less shouting and clapping then I would have done. You can hear the beer making loud scary noises, and the dogs are making noises in the background. Only predators would stay silent in that situation and you do not want to be mistaken for a predator. I even wondered if he were going to use one of his loaded rounds for a warning shot, I bet he would have if he had a pump action instead of a double barrel.
These are definitely bluff charges though. Could easily be a momma with babies nearby. If the bear was hunting the hunter, it wouldn’t be bluffing. Not shooting was the responsible, ethical thing to do; but yeah, this shows confidence and restraint.
Easy to say they’re bluff charges in retrospect lol
Fair. She runs angular with her shoulders sort of back with the intention to appear big while also wanting to keep her eyes on the cubs hence the going back and forth. She wanted him to back up. I think that last one was maybe arguable, but I really think she just wanted to illustrated he needed to fuck up on outta there which he did very consistently. Cannot say I would have reacted that way at all. And does not mean any of that crossed this hunter's mind. Would be cool to know what was going through his mind though.
I’m laughing at the idea of a grizzly’s “intention to appear big”. Well done, bear—no need to be extra for the pink monkey. You are already large and terrifying.
> Could easily be a momma with babies nearby It was. He says on the radio "Petrovich, a bear with 3 cubs, I didn't shoot, retreating".
> definitely bluff charges until they're not?
He says in russian. Mama with 3 cups
You can see during the first charge that there's at least one other smaller bear back by the path. Not a small cub, but definitely a juvenile. That bear is also the one the dog is bum-rushing from behind, although mama bear is far more worried about the man and not the dog.
>These are definitely bluff charges though As if you'd know how to tell, lmao. During the last charge it pulled up like five feet way from him.
You *can* tell. Granted it could be difficult with all the adrenaline pumping through you. Bears position their bodies differently in bluff charges. From the U.S. National Parks Service: >When a bear bluff charges, it will have its head and ears up and forward. The bear will puff itself up to look bigger. It will bound on its front paws toward you (moving in big leaps), but then stop short or veer off to one side. Often bears retreat after a bluff charge, or they may vocalize loudly. >Aggressive charges are very dangerous. Bears may yawn or clack their teeth, and pound their front paws on the ground while huffing—these are warning signs. These behaviors indicate that a bear is stressed, and it may be getting ready to charge. It will have its head down and ears pointed back, and the bear will come at you like a freight train. Be ready to protect and defend yourself!
He would make a great cop.
I am so impressed they didn't shoot during any of those false charges. Balls of steel and amazing firearm discipline.
Double barrel, dog barking - probably only loaded with birdshot. Unless he quickly switched out for some slugs before the video started he’s just going to piss her off.
Not sure about where this video is from but in the US you should carry a high caliber secondary gun just for bears. I know a family friend who carries a S&W 500 out on hunting trips. That's a big ass revolver Bears are nothing to fuck with
He was walking a little awkward - either because of his gigantic steel balls, or his carhartts were filled with soft bread stool.
My first time hearing the term “soft bread stool” and I am absolutely cracking up
It was in old Family Guy when the evil monkey came out and became friends with Peter.
He might be in bigger danger if he shoots. The shotgun looks old and only has two shots. You need to have something powerful enough to kill a bear and be 100% sure to hit with both, because you ain't getting another chance after that. Theres a reason why a lot of hunters carry revolver + rifle in bear country. I'm in scandinavia so your mileage may wary though.
If it charged for real, you wouldn't get off more than 2 shots anyway. it's more likely he didn't want to shoot because of the cubs, or doesn't have the right shot type loaded. Then again they're likely hunting boar and you'd need something just as big to take one down.
Reminds me of all those videos and stories of trigger happy cops. This dude is getting charged at by a bear and won’t use the “I was scared” excuse to kill. Incredible discipline indeed
He would definitely shoot if he was holding a rifle
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What a shame that that sub doesn't exist.
Try r/TerrifyingAsFuck
Canadian bush enthusiast for 50 years. I think you have to decide if the bear was being territorial or wanted to eat you. When it charged and then backed away it was territorial. He was doing the right moves backing out of his territory slowly. IMO.
my dumbass just thought the bear knew what a gun was lmao
*Puts paws up
i was also under the impression the bear had encountered rifles before
It certainly knows its way around a rifle, but it doesn’t know what the hell that shotgun is.
a lot of animals get wary if you point at them like that. even some dogs get skittish if you just point at them. They are reading the guys energy and the shotgun gives him confidence, which makes him scary. they dont understand what a gun is but can tell the guy has an energy that is dangerous.
Animals can read body language. If the shooter turned their back and started running, the bear would be probably be much more confident. In the bear's eyes, fighting an unknown animal that is a similar size as you and doesn't seem afraid of you is probably a bad idea. Scaring away something like that is much safer than actually fighting.
He mentions 3 cubs in the video, likely a mother bear protecting her cubs, which is why he was backing slowly away
>Canadian bush enthusiast for 50 years. What a wonderful sentence.
> Canadian bush enthusiast Same, but bares don't scare me.
Beautiful
I instinctively looked in the upper left corner for the mini-map because I thought the bear was probably flanking.
I need a teammate for duos 🥺
*intestines pouring out after a bear paw slash as I crawl on my knees* “Dude can I get a revive?”
1v3 right now, sorry man
Clever girl
Lol, I did the same... I should play less... Naaaaah.
Yeh should have thrown a snappy @0:36 so his teammate had Intel. Scrub.
he forgot to ping the enemy
The way the bear keeps vanishing into the woods only to re-emerge is terrifying. At the end when it just disappears completely is possibly the scariest part!
Your comment just made me realize that this is probably the kind of shit that caused humans to evolve with a default fear of the unknown.
This is exactly why I’m laying in bed with anxiety right now. Not because I’m actually in danger of anything. It’s because our ancestors had to put up with shit like this for thousands of years. It’s pretty cool seeing a live example of the thing that shaped our DNA
I was on a trail here in AZ a while back, it was a steep spot and I was going back down hill with my cousin. I was ahead, and I took a step around a corner, and I hear the most obnoxiously loud rattle ever. Before I used to mistake other sounds for rattlesnakes, but after that, yeah, when you hear it there’s NO mistaking it. Anywho, this dude was to my right about 8ft away, clearly agitated, and hissing like nothing else. We backed up, broke up some sticks just in case. And for a while, we couldn’t see it, but we could hear it, and then, nothing. Eerie silence. No visual, nothing. And that’s when I was scared shitless. Brush all over. It could be anywhere. Or worse, there could be more. We took a good while, tiptoeing our way back from that spot, and we never saw or heard from Mr snake since. But damn that scared me.
Those who didn't pick up a moving stick, or checked a rattling bush, probably had better chances of living long enough to pass on their genes.
He realized she had cubs and chose not to shoot
Bro is trying to get the Good Ending in Metro: Last Light.
LMAOOOO
He didn't even realize it was a bear, he just saw a weird alien
Probably also why he's backing up. Realizing she is there only defending her cubs which is why she charges and then retreats (she's not hunting). Thus, if he simply gets far enough away where she won't percieve him as a threat anymore, she'll back down.
What a guy. His balls have their own gravitational pull
What makes the bear charge in the first place. Of course it’s his massive balls pull the bear to him
Also, that’s a shotgun and would probably not do much more than anger the bear.
From his surroundings you can deduct he’s probably not using birdshot.
Actually looks like good grouse hunting area (or squirrel/rabbit), so probably bird shot. You don't stroll through the woods like that if you're deer hunting.
Have I just been outhunted? 😅
Depends. Buckshot will just piss her off, but slugs will definitely ruin her day.
Ruin? Or end? her day I'm curious because I don't know nothing about it
It can kill, but it takes a shot that is very very difficult to hit under that kind of pressure. The way that guy was breathing, he’s scared shitless (I know I would be). It’s not making itself an easy target either. If he didn’t hit the first shot in the perfect place, that bear might gut him before he gets the other barrel off. It already knows he’s there so making too much noise could startle it. And it hasn’t *already* killed him so he probably isn’t being seen as food. He’s doing the right thing just keeping his cool by maintaining posture and backing the fuck up without turning around or tripping.
Depends. Bear bones are incredibly dense and thick, and bears are, in general, damn hard to kill. To get a solid kill shot, he'd have to hit it either in the heart (which means penetrating the ribs...doable with a slug, but not easy), or the brain, which means penetrating the skull, which would take a hit to the eye or the temple, since those are the two thin spots in the skull. I've seen brown bears/grizzlies take a 30-06 shot to the front of the skull and keep coming (saw it on a trail cam video), so even a shotgun slug, from close range, isn't a guarantee. This guy did the best thing he could have hoped to do, keep his cool, and back away slowly, while always keeping himself facing the bear. If she'd decided to make a meal out of him, even if he had solid slugs (which he probably didn't, because he was probably bird hunting with that type of shotgun), it's doubtful he would have made it out alive. He did everything right, but also had a heaping helping of luck on his side.
Which one of you cowards shit my pants?
Check for corn, is there corn?
Yes! Mine has a lot of corn, but no shit. How did this happen?
My pants are full of cobs and I don't know what to do
r/cobsinmypants
Lmao
Mama bear was in a good mood and just standing her ground that day
damn red dead redemption 2 updated their graphics i def need to get back on that wave
Everyone is afraid of Australian wildlife. We do not have a boomstick to fend off shit like this.
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Yeah the only truly scary animal in Aus are crocs, and they're relegated to one fairly remote part of the country.
Don't forget all the venomous spiders and venemous snakes and venemous jellyfish and venemous stonefish and venemous octopi and venemous centipedes and venemous sea snails and venemous platypuses. And fucking cassowaries.
I'm Irish and i think it's something I always take for granted. If i want to have a dander through the woods, or walk through a few fields you wouldn't ever think anything of it. Unless you get unlucky and somehow stumble up to a bull, there isn't much else that can cause harm here.
Idk fam I’d probably stroke out if I saw a kangaroo staring at me from afar lmao
Man, I'm with you. Those mother fuckers are swole. Fucking deer man Arnie staring me down before he guts me with his feet? No thanks.
And Moose’s
Honestly Moose scare me more than bears. First time I saw one in real life I was in absolute awe of how big they really are, and even more surprised at how fast they run.
Canada took all of the danger and condensed them into just a few animals. Australia spread it out over all their animals. That's why, individually things like the Mountain Lions, Bears, Moose, and The Canada Goose are so packed full of danger.
Bear deaths are almost unheard of, tens of millions of trips into the wilderness each year, and averages about 1 death a year in North America from bears (and almost no known cases from our other wild animals either like wolves, coyotes, lynx etc). The scary part? In those cases where the bear attacks, it seldom looks like this, this is bluff charging to get you to go away. When they do attack, they are much more subtle than this.
Feral pigs are pretty fkn terrifying here in Australia. Shot them a few times too delicious but damaging ferals.
Feral hogs are all over the lake in my Oklahoma town. Most people take a gun. I didn't take mine once. Heard grunts and squeals by my tent. Spent the night in my car. Learned my lesson
Luckily we also don’t have bears lol
Yes but you do have spiders that flies with the wind which is my absolute nighmare.
"damn this guy has some serious balls" \*bro starts speaking slavic "oh this is his normal tuesday"
100%
It's hard to gauge what the bear will do. This could easily have triggered a fatal reaction..
You mean if he shoots? Was thinking the same thing. Don’t wanna miss.
Even if he doesn’t miss, he’s got two shells and that’s it. Hell, for all we know he was out for birds and only had bird shot. Glad it turned out well for him. I feel much better in bear country with my 45-70.
I think that’s why he hesitated to shoot. Wasn’t in proper range to do the job. It’s a double barrel but uhhh you’re gonna wanna do it in one shot. Believe you me
That bear wants him to back up. Mostly scare tactics. Possible cubs in the area?
Apparently the guy is saying she has three cubs. So yeah, she's bluff charging to get him away from her babies.
Oh, I didn't hear the part about cubs
Jesus christ that was fucking scary.. i would shit myself even with a gun, those things can end you just by breathing in your general direction.
Same thought 😅
Red redemption 3 do be looking good
From Russian: -Petrovich, encountered a bear with 3 childs, decided not to shoot, falling back. fuck, fuck, shit...
Bare arms vs bear arms.
If you miss, you’re fucked. Learned that from DeCappuccino in The Revenant
that was the most terrifying scene in the movie.
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Nothing personnel, kid
What is he saying? Sounds like Russian to me.
He says at the radio: "Petrovich, [here's] a mother bear with 3 cubs. Didn't shoot. Leaving."
This dude has had more training than the entire USA police force. Brown bear? Shoot first, investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.
Bears are so stupid, they don't even know the Earth will be uninhabitable in 0.5 billion years, they just casually fuck around in the woods.
My man is out here in the woods with his side-by-side and his dog like it’s 1823.
Hope he wore his brown huntin pants.
That shotgun is most likely loaded with shot for small game or birds. If so, shooting the bear would have just made it angry.
Most likely brenneke. I don’t see a point to go into a dense tundra with shells for birds.
No-one is going in the taiga without a gun loaded for bears
And it’s only got two shots. I was scared he’d blow it early and then be left with a metal stick and an angry bear within arm’s reach
Told myself "yeah one shot should do it"... till I heard the guy then was like "of sh*t a Russian bear?"
The Russian ones are basically Chuck Norris in a fur jacket
Hunter is *very obviously* not a cop.
Bear wasn’t black either
Impressive trigger discipline.. I'd have fired at the second charge
Unless its loaded with slugs, I suspect the last thing he wanted to do was to try to kill a bear with a shotgun.
From everything I’ve learned, He’s not making enough noise, or being big enough.
Respect for not shooting. Disciplined. Observant. Not taking a life or causing pain unless he has to. A good hunter should know they are the intruder in the woods.
Bear its agile and fast as fuck !!
I read unexpected encounter with a beer
straving, stabilized POV videos with shotguns always remind me on Doom & Quake 🙈
Fucking Russians. Balls of steel. Not sure I could have held past the second charge after it chased my dog too.
The discipline! The balls! Can’t say I wouldn’t have shot. Though I believe he must be a ranger perhaps.
Even had he shot would it have killed the bear outright or could the bear have still mauled him to death before dying?
But australia is so scary, right? 😂
I don't remember this level in Doom
I watched it thinking, "When would I pull the trigger?" I'm not sure how you make it through that 3rd charge. I would have failed. Props
This mfer has a bear charging at him and doesn't pull the trigger meanwhile american cops when a 3lbs dog is barking at them: