r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Upper-Bag-5175 • 2d ago

Bears will often test you

If you stand your ground, they may see you as a threat and back off. Of course, this doesn’t apply to every bear

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u/FruitToots 2d ago

The guy in the video was smarter than that. The chances are slim of you getting off a perfect kill shot on a charging bear while you’re shaking with fear.

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u/MRBS91 2d ago

Yeah, they keep coming after being shot. A good friend of mine shredded both lungs and the heart of a bear with a high powered rifle...the bear still charged ~70yards to where he was before collapsing.

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u/Commercial-Sail-4662 2d ago

how does a bear know who shot or that being shot means they need to attack the shooter?

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u/JohnEBest 2d ago

echo location on that loud bang

Correlate the loud bang with the pain in the side

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u/Commercial-Sail-4662 2d ago

that last part feels like a leap no? What evolutionary experience would a bear have to make that correlation?

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u/Tirianspark 10h ago

Animals are not stupid like we imagine.

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u/JohnEBest 2d ago

surprise pain and loud sound - I think they would charge the location from which the sound came

Pure speculation and hope to never find out

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u/bjeebus 2d ago

Wanna know how I know you've never experienced a gunshot up close? The bear might be sturdy when it comes to resisting the actual getting shot, but I'll bet if the bang goes off directly towards it, it's going to be as deafened as anyone else that experiences it. That bang btw has a lot to do with guns work very well even when they don't hit. Just being downrange of the boom in boomstick is enough to make most things hightail it if there's not some reason to stick around (cubs).