
Originally Posted by
mrbb
yes a bear can sure run fast and go up hill as fast as they can down hill too, don't buy into that old saying about there short legs giving them issues going down hill, thats BS< I seen enough run both directions at full blast to know for a fact!
BUT again, there is NO logical reason to get a rifle up and ready due to seeing a BEAR at a 100 yards is is FEAR in the work and not logic!
there is really NO GOOD reason for any healthy bear, even sow's with cubs, to be targeting any human at a 100 yards, you are NOT a threat to them at this distance nor them to you!!
and again, in PA.'s entire history, there has only been like 1 person KILLED by a black bear
and across North america its like 1.25 people killed a yr only!
so that's an extremely LOW number
more folks are killed by moose and there in even fewer places, and NOT normally places of LARGE human populations, yet many places BOTH black bears and moose live in same area,
HOW many would again be raising a rifle as SOON as they see a moose at a 100 yards away??
I doubt many, yet your odds of being attacked by them is MUCH MUCH higher!
people FEAR bears out of lack of knowledge and due to maybe movies and bad press!
Heck, your odds of needing a gun period with a bear is extremely low and almost NONE!
bear are again, just animals trying to live, and most ALL fear humans and think we STINK, and want NOTHING to do with us!
overreacting is never good
NOTHING wrong with being prepared, but that also mean learning some GOOD honest information too, not just knowing a weapon! knowledge can be very powerful thing to have!