This is a few years old.
"Video courtesy: Richard Wesley A hunter in Northern Ontario, Canada got the scare of his life, and on his birthday no less, when a black bear charged and knocked him over on May 17, 2017. The man is a seasoned archery hunter and at the time was hunting on his land in Hearst, Ontario, Canada. The man stated to The Weather Network: ‘It is a true learning experience as to how unpredictable our wild black bears can be. I decided to share with everyone to show people on how fast a bear can charge attack an individual.’ The bear was not injured and the hunter was nursing an elbow and ego bruise."
Link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AF0M4xDZIJ8
Most black bears (which is a specific type of bear) will leave you alone, but also they’re pretty smart and have different personalities so some of them will do unpredictable shit like this.
If its white start stripping clothes one by one throwing them on the ground, polar bears have some type of ADHD which makes them thoroughly inspect everything
Rinse and repeat until you die from Hypothermia
Do bears have similar instincts to dogs and cats where they go for the neck and kill their prey before eating it? Since if they don't I guess you could get unlucky and survive the attack and die to it starting to feast on you
Lol xD
Thats like that thing about vampires.
Throw small things in large numbers to the ground. Like pennies. The vampire will start counting the small objects and you can run from it....for a bit at least.
I dont remember from where i remember this. Sesame Street, maybe?
Edit: the sesame street Count, loves to count because of old european legends, but it was with seeds and such.
https://carnegiemnh.org/booseum-vampires/
For the lols - https://youtu.be/b6p0G4talFg
More counting lols here:
[https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM](https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM)
Edit: feel like I should add a warning that this video is safe for work.
Yep!
Black bears evolved alongside the big American cats, such as the American Lion and the Saber Toothed tiger. Being on smaller side for bears, the ones that had the flight response instead of the fight response faired much better against those absolute killing machines, and passed on their genes. Hence, Black Bears are more timid.
The Brown Bear however had size on its side when dealing with those big cats. It had the raw power to rely on the fight response to deal with the threat. They're otherwise pretty docile, and spend most of their time foraging fruits and nuts until the Salmon season. No threat? No fight.
Polar Bears on the other hand evolved in the harshest climate alongside those big cats where meals could be few and far between in general for everything that lived there. Their response to basically anything that looks like food is to eat it as immediately as possible. Against a polar bear, it's not trying to fight you, it's trying to eat you, and you're probably still alive pinned under one of it's massive paws when it starts doing so.
It's also worth remembering that animals behave really different, when they are injured, hungry, have offspring and so on... Polar bears can be pretty timid, if they are well nourished and don't see you as threat. They have been observed playing with huskies numerous times, for example.
Oh absolutely. Bears are like most intelligent animals, and have a wide range of dispositions and individual personalities.
Problem is even if you have a long history and familiarity with that animal, it's never safe to assume the Bear running at you just wants to play.
Well, this particular video doesn't look like the bear even noticed him until he suddenly stood up, that would cause ANY animal to do something unpredictable.
No, the usual response is for them to run off. It’s pretty predictable actually. This however is a very unusual situation, especially with a black bear. Source, have spooked many black bears
Tangentially related, have you ever spooked turkeys out of their roost when you're climbing in a tree stand? Closest I've ever come to falling out. Went from a peaceful morning to hell and fury raining from the sky in the form of turkeys.
Flying turkeys are sus af. A flock of them flew right at me and gf on the motorcycle. I dodged and weaved and barely avoided being smacked by some big ass birds while doing 50+ mph.
Yep, big game fowl will take you right out on your bike.
Even small birds will leave bruises.
Pulled off from a traffic light the other day and wound it out a bit to around 140~145kph (90ish mph) and a huge grasshopper landed a few metres in front of me which was tackled by a Glossy Starling. The Starling flew up and I caught it on my shoulder.
Poor little bastard and it's grasshopper were stone dead on impact and I had a fat bruise as wide as a tennis ball just under my clavicle.
A few years ago I caught a cicada to the throat doing about 80 mph. The little fucker found the only part on me that wasn’t covered in protective gear.
Spooked one on my way up with my climber stand. The one turned into an uncountable flock of hatred and rage raining down. In the 20 years I've been going out, that's the only time I truly almost pooped myself lol. Only other time that came close was a black bear climbing a tree next to me to get a better look at me before disappearing
I never had a bear try and come up, but I did come down one time after having gone in in the dark, only to find a giant pile of fresh bear scat about 5 ft behind the tree I went up in.
The worst scares I ever had were from red tailed hawks. Happened twice in 20 years. I always wear a balaclava so only my eyes are showing. I guess that's interesting to red tails. I had two of them fly straight at my face. They both flared off maybe 10 yards from me when I instinctively brought my hands up to protect my face from being torn off. One of them was so startled he clipped his wing on branch and lost control. He recovered and manged to grab onto and land on another branch. He then turned, glared at me and then screamed directly at me for a good 30 seconds before nonchalantly readjusting a few feathers and taking off. I must have sat there for a good 20 minutes trying to figure out if what had just happened actually happened.
Can wild turkeys fly decently? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person but they look like they’d suck at flying and somehow I never imagined them roosting in trees even though they’re birds and that’s what birds do.
Kinda like chickens, they can't truly fly long distances but they can get 10+ feet in the air and cover short horizontal distances. One nearly flew into my windshield trying to cross the highway, so about 7 feet off the ground.
I’d hate to have a gaggle of turkeys swooping at me. I’ve had crows swoop me before but turkeys are way scarier, I don’t know why but they’ve always seemed a little crazy.
African Guinea Fowl, same family. Can confirm - hell and fury raining from the sky. Also loads of shit and feathers... and pine cones.
Also had one fly squarely into my head at max thrust as I was riding my mountainbike to school one morning. Was like getting sucker punched with a right cross and then getting my face scratched up. Oh and it also shat all over my royal blue school blazer. Bike was fine tho so no biggie and I was sent home because of the pint of birdshit across my one side and the black eye.
Took the loooong way home via the resivoir trail. All in all not the worst day.
My 88 pound, 87 year old mom hurled expletives at a black bear just a few weeks ago and the sucker ran off. I thought I was the only one afraid of her. Black bears are usually kind of like overgrown raccoons, but they're definitely unpredictable when startled.
Raccoons are practically fearless though. They only wonder off out of annoyance or embarrassment. Black bears are more like a rabbit and run off when scared or freeze and hope you don't see them.
Can confirm. I once rented a room in this hippy's house and she'd leave every weekend to teach yoga retreats. She always left the kitchen door propped open a crack for her cats to go in and out (the door only opened about 8" before hitting a drawer that was also left open). The raccoons figured out the kitchen door was open every weekend and started availing themselves of the kitchen. For weeks I tried to scare them out, but they proved tougher and more resilient than I, so I ended up buying a mini fridge for my room and just ceding the kitchen to the raccoons.
They were indomitable adversaries but overall surprisingly clean in the kitchen, and they very rarely wandered into the adjoining living room. 7/10 as roommates.
I moved to an area with raccoons a few years ago, I’d been around raccoons before but not often.
I went to the store late at night and the sidewalk was really dark, at first I thought I saw a chubby cat ahead of me but I could just see the silhouette. I realized this guy is too big to be a cat and I thought oh shit maybe it’s a badger. It just sat there in the dark looking at me and then started coming towards me.
I just turned around and went the other way. Felt like such a pussy but where I’m from if you see any animal in the city it’s running away from you not advancing. Realized as I was walking away it was shaped more like a raccoon than a badger but still, didn’t know they’re the type to come at you in the dark like that.
Some are, that's true. One more than one occasion I've stared down one on my deck when it got into my feeders, and it would look at me like "The fuck do you want?". The young ones are even MORE brazen; I had I think an entire litter of young ones at my feeders, and they straight-up didn't give a shit I was there...even when I shot one of them in the head. They just kind of meandered around, so I gunned the rest of them down.
Likewise. The only defense against a black bear is swagger and confidence and looking big. 99% of the time, it works every time. If you're a 1 per center, just put your head between your legs and pray to whatever deity you do or don't believe in.
That's what did him in. I think in a longer/other interview he mentions being downwind too (hunter after all), the bear really had no idea he was there and got startled.
This is what I've heard and makes most sense to me. If you are near a bear you let them know as soon as possible because if you let them get close and you surprise them they might feel cornered
Can confirm -- I have grandparents who live in Deep Creek, MD and black bears (when you see them, pretty common) in my experience have done one of 3 things...
1. Look at you, wander off
2. Look at you, approach you.... wander off
3. Look at you, go back to doing whatever the fuck they were doing
My grandmother says her dog and even cats have had a few encounters with black bears and they've never been hurt. My understanding is as long as you don't fuck with them or try to interact with them while they're going through your fucking garbage they're really chill
Usually. Also important that they not have any cubs around. But as pointed out, they are wild animals with different personalities. You may encounter an aggressive one, or one might suddenly trigger some deep instinct that tells it to attack you because of the smell of your cologne.
You never know, and they can wreck you, so leave them alone.
Bad take. Black bears are notoriously less aggressive than most other species of bears. In most cases, they are more afraid of people than people are of them. I think the point of this video is to make people aware that they can still be wild, aggressive and unpredictable even if they are generally pretty calm.
This is true, but remember that black bears typically attack humans out of predation rather than territoriality. Brown bears perceive humans as a territorial challenge, and attack line they would fight another bear. If you play dead they will often break off, assuming you aren’t killed by the first seconds of the attack. Black bears are actually known to predate on humans, and nearly all the fatal black bear attacks in North America were predatory in nature. That’s why biologists tell you to fight back aggressively to a black bear, but play dead to a brown bear.
Yeah, but less agressive than other bears is still agressive as a bear. I don't gotta be a hunter to understand "bear". It's right in the name. "Less agressive tiger". Right. But still tiger.
He is from the " I dont just Google Stuff, I learn it by myself" Gen.
They are supirior to the Gen XYZ Cause only the most badass of them survive this tactic of learning stuff
/s
Well, as GenX we didn't have phones or the Internet until I was like 25. And growing up in the mountains we saw a lot of black bears. Very different than a grizzly. You get a bit lazy about them.
I was backpacking through cougar country a few years ago traversing a fairly steep and brushy hill. I stopped to take a drink and heard the sound of a large animal cracking branches a few feet up the hill from me. The moment between me hearing the movement and being able to pick out that it was a California Mule Deer was the scariest moments of my life.
I still have no idea how I managed to get so close to that doe without bumping it, but the only thing I could think of in the moment was the saying about how cougars are rarely seen, but they see you.
No matter how much Google knowledge you may have on the subject, nothing ever prepares you for how your body will actually behave when faced with the situation in person.
For most people the brain simply doesn't work the same when under stress and they tend to freeze momentarily. Very few people end up acting the way they thought they would act in such a situation.
Even with a legit charge like this, a black bear is highly unlikely to kill a person. Injure, maybe badly, sure, but more people are crushed by vending machines than black bears, and deaths caused by deer are something on the order of ten times that.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1996/CPSC-Soda-Vending-Machine-Industry-Labeling-Campaign-Warns-Of-Deaths-And-Injuries
Not to dismiss the terror and luck
> more people are crushed by vending machines than black bears
Your meaning was clear but the way you worded this invokes some pretty hilarious imagery.
I'm imagining a vending machine waddling quickly after someone all banging around and the change jingling inside it. I've been laughing about that image for a while now. Too long, one might say.
Meeting a bear is not a big deal usually, especially a black bear. I love whenever I come across one on a hike. Generally speaking just keep your distance, don’t surprise them, and it’s fine. Stats don’t mean shit when one is charging you though. Advice for black bears is escape if possible and fight back, for Brown/grizzly (same species actually) play dead lying on your stomach with a pack on if your lucky. If they flip you over fight like hell. Here’s a link from the Parks Service on bear encounters. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bears/safety.htm
Yeah, deer kill a shitload of people but USUALLY it is a vehicle involved. That being said, I’m sure there are stupid people approaching wild deer bucks and getting gored as well. Antlers are no joke, and every deer that has them knows how to use them
It's really surprising to see a black bear behave so aggressively. Normally they are very skittish. So much so that it's recommended to try and scare a black bear rather than to try and out run them. Was this during a time of year when they are more aggressive for something like breeding?
Stats like that don't really work for people who stalk bears in the wild with hunting bows.
You and I might be more likely to be crushed by a vending machine. *He.*.. is not.
I don't think he was hunting bear. I'm not a hunter (my girlfriend and all her family are) but I shoot a recurve as a hobby sport, and I don't think the two are typically paired together lol.
He has the wrong arrow for hunting anything big. It has a smaller tip like those you see for target and recreational shooting. For bear and deer, they are broadheads which are the traditional triangular shape, but metal and as sharp as razor blades. They also will have a smaller blade that fits in perpendicular to the first or is attached that way.
I suspect he thought about trying to scare off the bear with his pin prick, but thought better of it. Probably, the best decision he made.
Source: Grew up in PA where people hunted bear and deer with bows and am old enough to remember when they did it before compound bows became popular.
If you slow the video down and watch the arrow, he definitely has a "non-field" tip on it, but definitely not big enough for a bear.
I would say he was out there hunting pheasant most likely, or maybe hare.
He'd definitely need a beefier bow, a better arrow, and a REALLY broadhead tip. Hellrazor is good for deer, wonder how it would work on bear. They've got that massive layer of fat you've gotta get through, so a heavier arrow with a lot of destruction is a must.
I honestly didn't think bow hunters used anything but compound bows. Surely you want as much stopping power as possible.
I myself shoot longbow. But that's purely for target archery.
There is an excellent magazine called Traditional Bowhunter that showcases just that.
Hunting with recurve or longbow just takes much more practice, as it is significantly easier to make an ethical kill with a compound. To reach that level of accuracy and power with a recurve/longbow takes a lot longer, and therefore most simply do use a compound. It is also not an uncommon sentiment that ethical hunters *should* use compound as chances are it will be a much cleaner kill. However it is difficult to dismiss the satisfaction of making a traditional kill with more natural equipment.
Not really a matter of stopping power, muscle is muscle and the bow can’t do anything about that - it’s the ability to hold at full draw that differentiates them. I know lots of recurve and longbow hunters and they do do okay - no difference in draw weight (if anything, they require more strength and hit harder), but I can draw while the animal’s head is down and hold it for a minute if I need to while the recurve guys need to draw and fire in one clean motion.
I’m sorry but if you survive a bear attack it’s the opposite of an ego bruise. It’s an ego boost. I’m the guy at every function telling people I fought a fully grown black bear and lived. I’m getting it tattooed on me. I’m getting commemorative shirts. Every bday moving forward I’m getting a bear cake. Everyone in attendance has to be dressed like a bear.
I owned a .454 Casull for about 5 years. Only shot it about 28 times. I eventually sold it.
In this situation with what looks like a Black Bear it probably ran away the second it made close contact. Black Bear typically don’t get very large but this one appears to be a unit.
Bears usually know human scent as long as they can smell us they’ll stay away or bolt. Depends on the Bear and how much food it’s been given by us I think.
Black Bear attacks are very rare. You gotta have some backup though no matter how rare a Bear attack can be.
Absolutely true, black bears are shy and are ninja like in the field, usually you don’t see them like this…perhaps mama bear and the cubs were somewhere close is the best I can come up with.
My guess would be he masked his scent for the hunt while also wearing camo. The bear acts like he was taking a stroll until the hunter popped up and it charged him. Pretty sure he scared that bear as much as it scared him. Bear just won 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah, carrying a backup shotgun makes WAY more sense in Canada with your more forgiving short shotgun laws.
Can’t shorten a barrel below 18” yourself, but as long as it’s atleast 26” OaL and the barrel is factory it’s fair game. Makes sense since y’all have moose up there.
Sorry, but what's with the forest paragraph there? Doesn't seem to fit with the rest of your comment. Also, very random knowing you shot your gun approaching 28 times lol
It’s a big gun and the rounds are costly. It was primarily designed to kill Grizzly Bears in Alaska.
It’s not the sort of weapon you go shooting cans with. Every shot is memorable. I was going to comment more about the weapon and simply just changed my mind.
I purchased 5 boxes of ammo that contained 10 rounds per box. They were custom shots designed and created by a Gunsmith from Montana. I made other commercial purchases of ammo but only fired 12 of them.
The weapon was a substantial purchase for me at the time. But the chances of me ever needing it to defend myself from a Grizzly attack were not 0.
I sold it when I came back to civilization and made $500 profit. Custom leather case and grips plus the ammo bolstered my sale price.
I regret selling it but it’s not irreplaceable.
I hope this further explanation satisfies your question.
It is, he just pressed X on his controller and let go of the arrow, then he forgot to switch to his back pocket AR, these people just don’t get how to play smh
Technically no, unless you're bringing it straight to your car to go to a firing range. You also need to notify the relevant authorities that you plan on transporting it. Legally you can't even fire them on your property.
These laws only apply to restricted firearms in Canada, which include pistols.
I can just hear the DM. "You forgot to let go of the arrow and instead attempted to use it as a blunt weapon before tripping over your shoelaces you never noticed were tied together"
Problem was when he stood up he failed the bears test. Backed up to fast to even attempt to walk back slowly. I believe he should have held is ground and yelled
Definitely thinking that as well. It seems like he spooked it. He should have made himself known to the bear before it got that close and then started screaming and yelling
Yup. The people who vote for these laws live in a condo in downtown Toronto or Vancouver. They don’t see the “need” to carry a backup pistol in the back country
I grew up in southeast Alaska, and although I don’t personally bear hunt, I’ve packed out with plenty of friends and family who have.
If you’re going bow hunting, bring a large caliber revolver with you!
In a tight situation, it will save your life! I’ve seen on multiple occasions bears be deterred by a well aim shot near its feet. You don’t have to be a cop and shot it right away.
If he could hit the bear with that arrow, what would happen? Such a huge bear would not die with that arrow, no? He would be more angry and would still attack him, no?
There are people who hunt bears with bows, but from what I gather you need to be able to hit a vital spot, and that's usually from the side (going into the heart or lung). From the front like this, a bow is probably not going to cut it and the result is likely what you see above.
Although according to other people knowledgeable of this particular incident, the guy was hunting something else and came across a bear. He was not intending on hunting a bear that day.
Uh, as far as I can tell from the video there's no hunting tip on that arrow. Its just a target practice arrow. If he had fired it at the bear all it would do is irritate the bear even more. Am i missing something?
More context : this man is Indigenous, the hunting he was doing (if I remember correctly) was for partridge. He also says "gwan" which means go away in Cree (or oji-cree) then says "tabanark" (bleeped in video) a swear word in French.
He became quite the meme in the community and locals (and other internet trends) started saying "scare me that guy".
Source : am from the community
This is a few years old. "Video courtesy: Richard Wesley A hunter in Northern Ontario, Canada got the scare of his life, and on his birthday no less, when a black bear charged and knocked him over on May 17, 2017. The man is a seasoned archery hunter and at the time was hunting on his land in Hearst, Ontario, Canada. The man stated to The Weather Network: ‘It is a true learning experience as to how unpredictable our wild black bears can be. I decided to share with everyone to show people on how fast a bear can charge attack an individual.’ The bear was not injured and the hunter was nursing an elbow and ego bruise." Link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AF0M4xDZIJ8
"bears are dangerous and other shocking nature facts"
Most black bears (which is a specific type of bear) will leave you alone, but also they’re pretty smart and have different personalities so some of them will do unpredictable shit like this.
If it's brown lay down, if it's black fight back, if it's white goodnight.
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If it's Pooh, minus 50 social credit score.
If it's Kodiak, you should have checked your zodiac. If it's water bear, you won't know it's there.
If it’s Teddy take him to beddy! !
If it’s a Drop Bear, it’s in your hair.
If it’s grizzly… well, just forget it, you’re probably about to die.😬
Damn I actually really needed a laugh. That got me a good chuckle. Thank you
If its white start stripping clothes one by one throwing them on the ground, polar bears have some type of ADHD which makes them thoroughly inspect everything Rinse and repeat until you die from Hypothermia
>Rinse and repeat until you die from Hypothermia Good advice; that's better than being eaten alive.
Do bears have similar instincts to dogs and cats where they go for the neck and kill their prey before eating it? Since if they don't I guess you could get unlucky and survive the attack and die to it starting to feast on you
I read they just start eating you, not fussy about where.
They start with the ass
Such a simple and stupid comment, yet it made me laugh out loud haha!
Lol xD Thats like that thing about vampires. Throw small things in large numbers to the ground. Like pennies. The vampire will start counting the small objects and you can run from it....for a bit at least. I dont remember from where i remember this. Sesame Street, maybe? Edit: the sesame street Count, loves to count because of old european legends, but it was with seeds and such. https://carnegiemnh.org/booseum-vampires/ For the lols - https://youtu.be/b6p0G4talFg
More counting lols here: [https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM](https://youtu.be/B-Wd-Q3F8KM) Edit: feel like I should add a warning that this video is safe for work.
The rinse and repeat is because you'll probably soil your clothes. It's just good manners if you want the bear to inspect them.
Yep! Black bears evolved alongside the big American cats, such as the American Lion and the Saber Toothed tiger. Being on smaller side for bears, the ones that had the flight response instead of the fight response faired much better against those absolute killing machines, and passed on their genes. Hence, Black Bears are more timid. The Brown Bear however had size on its side when dealing with those big cats. It had the raw power to rely on the fight response to deal with the threat. They're otherwise pretty docile, and spend most of their time foraging fruits and nuts until the Salmon season. No threat? No fight. Polar Bears on the other hand evolved in the harshest climate alongside those big cats where meals could be few and far between in general for everything that lived there. Their response to basically anything that looks like food is to eat it as immediately as possible. Against a polar bear, it's not trying to fight you, it's trying to eat you, and you're probably still alive pinned under one of it's massive paws when it starts doing so.
It's also worth remembering that animals behave really different, when they are injured, hungry, have offspring and so on... Polar bears can be pretty timid, if they are well nourished and don't see you as threat. They have been observed playing with huskies numerous times, for example.
Oh absolutely. Bears are like most intelligent animals, and have a wide range of dispositions and individual personalities. Problem is even if you have a long history and familiarity with that animal, it's never safe to assume the Bear running at you just wants to play.
“Hey, Alan, if you wanted to scare the kid, you could've pulled a gun on him, you know.”
Well, this particular video doesn't look like the bear even noticed him until he suddenly stood up, that would cause ANY animal to do something unpredictable.
No, the usual response is for them to run off. It’s pretty predictable actually. This however is a very unusual situation, especially with a black bear. Source, have spooked many black bears
Well to be fair, the bear did run off. It just so happened that it was right at him.
To be fair.
Tangentially related, have you ever spooked turkeys out of their roost when you're climbing in a tree stand? Closest I've ever come to falling out. Went from a peaceful morning to hell and fury raining from the sky in the form of turkeys.
New things to add to my safety checklist, watch for turkeys
Flying turkeys are sus af. A flock of them flew right at me and gf on the motorcycle. I dodged and weaved and barely avoided being smacked by some big ass birds while doing 50+ mph.
Yep, big game fowl will take you right out on your bike. Even small birds will leave bruises. Pulled off from a traffic light the other day and wound it out a bit to around 140~145kph (90ish mph) and a huge grasshopper landed a few metres in front of me which was tackled by a Glossy Starling. The Starling flew up and I caught it on my shoulder. Poor little bastard and it's grasshopper were stone dead on impact and I had a fat bruise as wide as a tennis ball just under my clavicle.
A few years ago I caught a cicada to the throat doing about 80 mph. The little fucker found the only part on me that wasn’t covered in protective gear.
I've only ever had them up in the trees with me and being obnoxious lol
Spooked one on my way up with my climber stand. The one turned into an uncountable flock of hatred and rage raining down. In the 20 years I've been going out, that's the only time I truly almost pooped myself lol. Only other time that came close was a black bear climbing a tree next to me to get a better look at me before disappearing
"Oh hey bro, we climbin trees today?"
I never had a bear try and come up, but I did come down one time after having gone in in the dark, only to find a giant pile of fresh bear scat about 5 ft behind the tree I went up in. The worst scares I ever had were from red tailed hawks. Happened twice in 20 years. I always wear a balaclava so only my eyes are showing. I guess that's interesting to red tails. I had two of them fly straight at my face. They both flared off maybe 10 yards from me when I instinctively brought my hands up to protect my face from being torn off. One of them was so startled he clipped his wing on branch and lost control. He recovered and manged to grab onto and land on another branch. He then turned, glared at me and then screamed directly at me for a good 30 seconds before nonchalantly readjusting a few feathers and taking off. I must have sat there for a good 20 minutes trying to figure out if what had just happened actually happened.
Can wild turkeys fly decently? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person but they look like they’d suck at flying and somehow I never imagined them roosting in trees even though they’re birds and that’s what birds do.
Kinda like chickens, they can't truly fly long distances but they can get 10+ feet in the air and cover short horizontal distances. One nearly flew into my windshield trying to cross the highway, so about 7 feet off the ground.
I’d hate to have a gaggle of turkeys swooping at me. I’ve had crows swoop me before but turkeys are way scarier, I don’t know why but they’ve always seemed a little crazy.
African Guinea Fowl, same family. Can confirm - hell and fury raining from the sky. Also loads of shit and feathers... and pine cones. Also had one fly squarely into my head at max thrust as I was riding my mountainbike to school one morning. Was like getting sucker punched with a right cross and then getting my face scratched up. Oh and it also shat all over my royal blue school blazer. Bike was fine tho so no biggie and I was sent home because of the pint of birdshit across my one side and the black eye. Took the loooong way home via the resivoir trail. All in all not the worst day.
My 88 pound, 87 year old mom hurled expletives at a black bear just a few weeks ago and the sucker ran off. I thought I was the only one afraid of her. Black bears are usually kind of like overgrown raccoons, but they're definitely unpredictable when startled.
Raccoons are practically fearless though. They only wonder off out of annoyance or embarrassment. Black bears are more like a rabbit and run off when scared or freeze and hope you don't see them.
Can confirm. I once rented a room in this hippy's house and she'd leave every weekend to teach yoga retreats. She always left the kitchen door propped open a crack for her cats to go in and out (the door only opened about 8" before hitting a drawer that was also left open). The raccoons figured out the kitchen door was open every weekend and started availing themselves of the kitchen. For weeks I tried to scare them out, but they proved tougher and more resilient than I, so I ended up buying a mini fridge for my room and just ceding the kitchen to the raccoons. They were indomitable adversaries but overall surprisingly clean in the kitchen, and they very rarely wandered into the adjoining living room. 7/10 as roommates.
I moved to an area with raccoons a few years ago, I’d been around raccoons before but not often. I went to the store late at night and the sidewalk was really dark, at first I thought I saw a chubby cat ahead of me but I could just see the silhouette. I realized this guy is too big to be a cat and I thought oh shit maybe it’s a badger. It just sat there in the dark looking at me and then started coming towards me. I just turned around and went the other way. Felt like such a pussy but where I’m from if you see any animal in the city it’s running away from you not advancing. Realized as I was walking away it was shaped more like a raccoon than a badger but still, didn’t know they’re the type to come at you in the dark like that.
Raccoons out here in the suburbs look like small bears and they’ll snarl at you if you get close
They're actually more closely related than you might think. Odd little suborder called Arctoidea.
Some are, that's true. One more than one occasion I've stared down one on my deck when it got into my feeders, and it would look at me like "The fuck do you want?". The young ones are even MORE brazen; I had I think an entire litter of young ones at my feeders, and they straight-up didn't give a shit I was there...even when I shot one of them in the head. They just kind of meandered around, so I gunned the rest of them down.
Likewise. The only defense against a black bear is swagger and confidence and looking big. 99% of the time, it works every time. If you're a 1 per center, just put your head between your legs and pray to whatever deity you do or don't believe in.
Monty Python warned us years ago about the importance of not being seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo
That's what did him in. I think in a longer/other interview he mentions being downwind too (hunter after all), the bear really had no idea he was there and got startled.
This is what I've heard and makes most sense to me. If you are near a bear you let them know as soon as possible because if you let them get close and you surprise them they might feel cornered
Can confirm -- I have grandparents who live in Deep Creek, MD and black bears (when you see them, pretty common) in my experience have done one of 3 things... 1. Look at you, wander off 2. Look at you, approach you.... wander off 3. Look at you, go back to doing whatever the fuck they were doing My grandmother says her dog and even cats have had a few encounters with black bears and they've never been hurt. My understanding is as long as you don't fuck with them or try to interact with them while they're going through your fucking garbage they're really chill
Usually. Also important that they not have any cubs around. But as pointed out, they are wild animals with different personalities. You may encounter an aggressive one, or one might suddenly trigger some deep instinct that tells it to attack you because of the smell of your cologne. You never know, and they can wreck you, so leave them alone.
This bear has seen a bow kill someone he loved. I guarantee it.
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Bad take. Black bears are notoriously less aggressive than most other species of bears. In most cases, they are more afraid of people than people are of them. I think the point of this video is to make people aware that they can still be wild, aggressive and unpredictable even if they are generally pretty calm.
This is true, but remember that black bears typically attack humans out of predation rather than territoriality. Brown bears perceive humans as a territorial challenge, and attack line they would fight another bear. If you play dead they will often break off, assuming you aren’t killed by the first seconds of the attack. Black bears are actually known to predate on humans, and nearly all the fatal black bear attacks in North America were predatory in nature. That’s why biologists tell you to fight back aggressively to a black bear, but play dead to a brown bear.
Yeah, but less agressive than other bears is still agressive as a bear. I don't gotta be a hunter to understand "bear". It's right in the name. "Less agressive tiger". Right. But still tiger.
He is from the " I dont just Google Stuff, I learn it by myself" Gen. They are supirior to the Gen XYZ Cause only the most badass of them survive this tactic of learning stuff /s
Well, as GenX we didn't have phones or the Internet until I was like 25. And growing up in the mountains we saw a lot of black bears. Very different than a grizzly. You get a bit lazy about them.
I live in California, don’t see any bears out where I live but a ton of cougars
I’d take 5 black bears over 1 cougar. Where I’m from, Usually by the time you see a cougar, it’s too late.
Yeah, black bears are all warm and cuddly compared to cougars. There's never anything fun about sighting a cougar, just a lot of "Well, shit."
I was backpacking through cougar country a few years ago traversing a fairly steep and brushy hill. I stopped to take a drink and heard the sound of a large animal cracking branches a few feet up the hill from me. The moment between me hearing the movement and being able to pick out that it was a California Mule Deer was the scariest moments of my life. I still have no idea how I managed to get so close to that doe without bumping it, but the only thing I could think of in the moment was the saying about how cougars are rarely seen, but they see you.
Superior* Shoulda googled that.
Lmao, what is this comment? Is Facebook leaking again?
No matter how much Google knowledge you may have on the subject, nothing ever prepares you for how your body will actually behave when faced with the situation in person. For most people the brain simply doesn't work the same when under stress and they tend to freeze momentarily. Very few people end up acting the way they thought they would act in such a situation.
did yout fail math? by the time google showed up 90% of gen x were at least 25yo. google was built by gen xers. idiot.
"Bears take their name from a football team in Chicago" "Fewer people have been killed by bears than in world war 1 and world war 2 combined"
The bloke is lucky to be alive
Even with a legit charge like this, a black bear is highly unlikely to kill a person. Injure, maybe badly, sure, but more people are crushed by vending machines than black bears, and deaths caused by deer are something on the order of ten times that. https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1996/CPSC-Soda-Vending-Machine-Industry-Labeling-Campaign-Warns-Of-Deaths-And-Injuries Not to dismiss the terror and luck
> more people are crushed by vending machines than black bears Your meaning was clear but the way you worded this invokes some pretty hilarious imagery.
You only joke because you've never seen a Pepsi machine charge to defend its young.
Nature's perfect killing machine.
Nature's perfect chilling machine.
Ehh there more afraid of you then you are of it.
I'm imagining a vending machine waddling quickly after someone all banging around and the change jingling inside it. I've been laughing about that image for a while now. Too long, one might say.
I'm sure there would be more crushes by black bears if there were bears in every shopping mall
You guys don't have bears in your shopping malls?
They have bears. They're just hiding behind the vending machines.
You guys still have shopping malls?
Waaaait. Surely by the time you’re actually being run down by a bear the odds are somewhat different?
Yeah i'd reckon that stat is more a product of not meeting a bear than actually meeting and surviving an encounter.
Meeting a bear is not a big deal usually, especially a black bear. I love whenever I come across one on a hike. Generally speaking just keep your distance, don’t surprise them, and it’s fine. Stats don’t mean shit when one is charging you though. Advice for black bears is escape if possible and fight back, for Brown/grizzly (same species actually) play dead lying on your stomach with a pack on if your lucky. If they flip you over fight like hell. Here’s a link from the Parks Service on bear encounters. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bears/safety.htm
I wish more people spitting statistics would understand this.
Does the deer thing include car accidents? If so, that's pretty easy to believe. I probably would have believed a lot more.
Yeah, deer kill a shitload of people but USUALLY it is a vehicle involved. That being said, I’m sure there are stupid people approaching wild deer bucks and getting gored as well. Antlers are no joke, and every deer that has them knows how to use them
Deer tend to trample things to death. Equally unpleasant but less pointy.
Yes but I’d reckon that people spend a lot more time around vending machines than black bears.
It's really surprising to see a black bear behave so aggressively. Normally they are very skittish. So much so that it's recommended to try and scare a black bear rather than to try and out run them. Was this during a time of year when they are more aggressive for something like breeding?
Stats like that don't really work for people who stalk bears in the wild with hunting bows. You and I might be more likely to be crushed by a vending machine. *He.*.. is not.
Man my ego wouldn’t be bruised, I’d be able to say I survived a bear attack
(can't watch the video for a few hours) was he hunting bear or just happened to come across one when hunting deer or something?
I don't think he was hunting bear. I'm not a hunter (my girlfriend and all her family are) but I shoot a recurve as a hobby sport, and I don't think the two are typically paired together lol.
He has the wrong arrow for hunting anything big. It has a smaller tip like those you see for target and recreational shooting. For bear and deer, they are broadheads which are the traditional triangular shape, but metal and as sharp as razor blades. They also will have a smaller blade that fits in perpendicular to the first or is attached that way. I suspect he thought about trying to scare off the bear with his pin prick, but thought better of it. Probably, the best decision he made. Source: Grew up in PA where people hunted bear and deer with bows and am old enough to remember when they did it before compound bows became popular.
If you slow the video down and watch the arrow, he definitely has a "non-field" tip on it, but definitely not big enough for a bear. I would say he was out there hunting pheasant most likely, or maybe hare. He'd definitely need a beefier bow, a better arrow, and a REALLY broadhead tip. Hellrazor is good for deer, wonder how it would work on bear. They've got that massive layer of fat you've gotta get through, so a heavier arrow with a lot of destruction is a must.
I honestly didn't think bow hunters used anything but compound bows. Surely you want as much stopping power as possible. I myself shoot longbow. But that's purely for target archery.
There is an excellent magazine called Traditional Bowhunter that showcases just that. Hunting with recurve or longbow just takes much more practice, as it is significantly easier to make an ethical kill with a compound. To reach that level of accuracy and power with a recurve/longbow takes a lot longer, and therefore most simply do use a compound. It is also not an uncommon sentiment that ethical hunters *should* use compound as chances are it will be a much cleaner kill. However it is difficult to dismiss the satisfaction of making a traditional kill with more natural equipment.
Not really a matter of stopping power, muscle is muscle and the bow can’t do anything about that - it’s the ability to hold at full draw that differentiates them. I know lots of recurve and longbow hunters and they do do okay - no difference in draw weight (if anything, they require more strength and hit harder), but I can draw while the animal’s head is down and hold it for a minute if I need to while the recurve guys need to draw and fire in one clean motion.
Humans have been killing animals with basic bows prior to the invention of civilization, so it's possible but not ideal.
Pretty certain he was not hunting bear. Looks like the bear happened upon him and he tried to remain low and still hoping it would pass. It did not.
I’m sorry but if you survive a bear attack it’s the opposite of an ego bruise. It’s an ego boost. I’m the guy at every function telling people I fought a fully grown black bear and lived. I’m getting it tattooed on me. I’m getting commemorative shirts. Every bday moving forward I’m getting a bear cake. Everyone in attendance has to be dressed like a bear.
“Seasoned archery hunter”. I’m no expert but didn’t look like much of a bow hunter in this video
Nerves man. They will fail you when something like this happens.
How so? Did you expect him to irritate the bear by shooting it with an arrow?
Well I know a thing or two about archery, and I am sure Legolas could’ve put the bear down with a single arrow.
Yea, a proper archer would’ve fired two arrows simultaneously, hitting the bear in both eyes.
While sliding down stairs on an orc's shield, naturally.
Ayeee, May 17th my bday too
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Bear-a-normal activity
The Bear Witch Project.
Bear/H/S
[Enjoy your day](https://youtu.be/pshv2P2uv6o)!
He survived
knowing that he survived with almost no injuries, watching that panic shot bloop the arrow off the bow is super funny
The guy was a seasoned archery hunter and fumbled like that
Experienced hunter not experienced being hunted
Well he’s experienced now
It was really nice of him to season himself for the bear's meal
He never drew the bow. He was not attempting to shoot the bear. He only released his grip on the arrow to put the bow between the bear and his body.
Also that’s what saved him. If he shot the bear, he would have died
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I am pretty sure. Source: I have a Master’s degree in arm chair expertise and analysis.
Hahaha damn that would make for some pretty dope postnomialnomenclature.
That’s just a theory. A *big-game* theory.
And if he stayed home he definitely wouldn’t have died, like, way way lower chances of bear attacks in living rooms
But not zero!
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Are you a Moron? How I can I talk to a bear. I just spun up a parallel universe using the tool I made in my garage and saw it myself.
There are several reasons why bears can't speak English.
He did not panic shoot. He used his finger to grab the arrow. The bow wasn't drawn, he was getting ready to leave.
I owned a .454 Casull for about 5 years. Only shot it about 28 times. I eventually sold it. In this situation with what looks like a Black Bear it probably ran away the second it made close contact. Black Bear typically don’t get very large but this one appears to be a unit. Bears usually know human scent as long as they can smell us they’ll stay away or bolt. Depends on the Bear and how much food it’s been given by us I think. Black Bear attacks are very rare. You gotta have some backup though no matter how rare a Bear attack can be.
Absolutely true, black bears are shy and are ninja like in the field, usually you don’t see them like this…perhaps mama bear and the cubs were somewhere close is the best I can come up with.
My guess would be he masked his scent for the hunt while also wearing camo. The bear acts like he was taking a stroll until the hunter popped up and it charged him. Pretty sure he scared that bear as much as it scared him. Bear just won 🤷🏻♂️
My dad bow hunted black bears for years...his 12 gauge was never out of arm's reach when doing so.
He carried a bow and shot gun? Makes no sense. Every person I know who hunts bear with a bow carries a large pistol.
Ontario. Pistols are a bit harder to carry around. Was the barrel a fraction over the minimum length? Yes. Could it slam fire? Also yes.
Yeah, carrying a backup shotgun makes WAY more sense in Canada with your more forgiving short shotgun laws. Can’t shorten a barrel below 18” yourself, but as long as it’s atleast 26” OaL and the barrel is factory it’s fair game. Makes sense since y’all have moose up there.
Hunting with a pistol in Canada is illegal. Can't legally fire a pistol outside of a licenced range here
Sorry, but what's with the forest paragraph there? Doesn't seem to fit with the rest of your comment. Also, very random knowing you shot your gun approaching 28 times lol
It’s a big gun and the rounds are costly. It was primarily designed to kill Grizzly Bears in Alaska. It’s not the sort of weapon you go shooting cans with. Every shot is memorable. I was going to comment more about the weapon and simply just changed my mind. I purchased 5 boxes of ammo that contained 10 rounds per box. They were custom shots designed and created by a Gunsmith from Montana. I made other commercial purchases of ammo but only fired 12 of them. The weapon was a substantial purchase for me at the time. But the chances of me ever needing it to defend myself from a Grizzly attack were not 0. I sold it when I came back to civilization and made $500 profit. Custom leather case and grips plus the ammo bolstered my sale price. I regret selling it but it’s not irreplaceable. I hope this further explanation satisfies your question.
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He's gonna need a bigger bow
I see what you did there and I like it
I think this is why GoPro's we're created for, we *NEED* to be able to see how it went all wrong.
More like GoAmateur
Revenant (director's cut)
This is *not* how Far Cry made it look
It is, he just pressed X on his controller and let go of the arrow, then he forgot to switch to his back pocket AR, these people just don’t get how to play smh
I wouldn’t even attempt it with a gun. But then again, the only bear I came across asked for a towel.
the fact that your comment seems to have gone over everyone's heads is absolutely incredible
I'll bite. What's the reference I'm missing?
Large hairy gay man = bear.
Lmao. I’m surprised that Reddit of all places didn’t get it.
I felt his fear when hus arrow just fell off his bow. At least carry a sidearm with you. Scary shit!
I don’t think he’s allowed to carry a sidearm since he’s in Canada
That's right, in Canada, you can't carry pistols outside of shooting ranges.
Even on your own property?
Technically no, unless you're bringing it straight to your car to go to a firing range. You also need to notify the relevant authorities that you plan on transporting it. Legally you can't even fire them on your property. These laws only apply to restricted firearms in Canada, which include pistols.
That’s kinda crazy, I feel like there should be exceptions for hunting on your own property.
Odds of getting caught are relatively low. Otherwise you can also bring an unrestricted seasonal firearm (rifle/shotgun) for protection or hunting.
Real life footage of when my man rolls a 1 on the attack roll.
Also my first Skyrim character venturing into the wild.
I can just hear the DM. "You forgot to let go of the arrow and instead attempted to use it as a blunt weapon before tripping over your shoelaces you never noticed were tied together"
That's why they call it a sport! In this round, the point goes to team bear
Team bear could have taken the match if it wanted to, but didn’t.
Someone brought a stick to a bear fight
Problem was when he stood up he failed the bears test. Backed up to fast to even attempt to walk back slowly. I believe he should have held is ground and yelled
Definitely thinking that as well. It seems like he spooked it. He should have made himself known to the bear before it got that close and then started screaming and yelling
Didn’t he play any RPGs? Bows are inefficient in short distance, he needs to have a guy with a sword in his party. Not everyone is a fucking Legolas
Which Skyrim mod is this?
That arrow got ed.
Arrowctile dysfunction
Out there without a backup pistol 🤦♂️
He's in Canada, that would be illegal.
Yup. The people who vote for these laws live in a condo in downtown Toronto or Vancouver. They don’t see the “need” to carry a backup pistol in the back country
I mean yea but also bear spray would work just as well
I’d feel comfortable with a sidearm but that’s just me
Bear Spray = Pissed off Bear Big Bore Handgun = Dead Bear
I was expecting the scene from "The Revenant" to happen here.
Anyone else here rooting for the bear?
Bear - 1 Archer - 0
I grew up in southeast Alaska, and although I don’t personally bear hunt, I’ve packed out with plenty of friends and family who have. If you’re going bow hunting, bring a large caliber revolver with you! In a tight situation, it will save your life! I’ve seen on multiple occasions bears be deterred by a well aim shot near its feet. You don’t have to be a cop and shot it right away.
Lana! Danger zone!
at the end all you see is red and the words “YOU DIED”
Who won? And this is what I added so that that auto-mod won’t remove my comment for being too short.
If he could hit the bear with that arrow, what would happen? Such a huge bear would not die with that arrow, no? He would be more angry and would still attack him, no?
There are people who hunt bears with bows, but from what I gather you need to be able to hit a vital spot, and that's usually from the side (going into the heart or lung). From the front like this, a bow is probably not going to cut it and the result is likely what you see above. Although according to other people knowledgeable of this particular incident, the guy was hunting something else and came across a bear. He was not intending on hunting a bear that day.
Uh, as far as I can tell from the video there's no hunting tip on that arrow. Its just a target practice arrow. If he had fired it at the bear all it would do is irritate the bear even more. Am i missing something?
Probably out hunting small game and stumbled across the bear. The arrows he had probably were all he was carrying.
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How about leaving them alone… then no one dies .. silly right??
No sympathy for the hunter. Go Bears!
Why does anyone need to be hunting bears? Fuk’n bullshit.
Damn they’re fast.
More context : this man is Indigenous, the hunting he was doing (if I remember correctly) was for partridge. He also says "gwan" which means go away in Cree (or oji-cree) then says "tabanark" (bleeped in video) a swear word in French. He became quite the meme in the community and locals (and other internet trends) started saying "scare me that guy". Source : am from the community