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And luck and timing. If a mountain lion has pounced on you from behind and is clamping onto your neck, what are your chances of punching it in the nose?
History is full of examples of grizzly bears being shot multiple times and not slowing down at all. In fact, people have shot at a grizzly from a distance with the only result being that the grizzly, who previously had shown no interest, was now charging them.
Very, very true. I read that mountain lions have a method of breaking the neck of their prey. If they are able to do that with an elk, or deer, our necks would be like a toothpick.
Those two people running away ahead of the girl must be her parents.
I believe the parents were actually just coming to the realization that the 9 yo had wandered off (against instructions) and they had both just dashed into camera range in an attempt to retrieve her when suddenly, the Great Beast charged! Carrying their infant twins at the time, they had no choice but to dash off with those twins to safety.
“Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
And luck and timing. If a mountain lion has pounced on you from behind and is clamping onto your neck, what are your chances of punching it in the nose?
History is full of examples of grizzly bears being shot multiple times and not slowing down at all. In fact, people have shot at a grizzly from a distance with the only result being that the grizzly, who previously had shown no interest, was now charging them.
As I said earlier a 100 pound mountain lion can easily take a 240 man down and done in a heartbeat. I have seen cats take a fully grown deer in their teeth and go straight up a sheer cliff you would swear a spider couldn't climb. LOL, you don't have to convince me of the folly of thinking that taking a cat on bare handed would result in anything but a sure death.
And a bear? haha, Same result, maybe quicker. Straight up or ambushed the critter will win every time. Things like what happened in the OP are all to common. Aren't humans supposed to possess superior intelligence? We seem to have some subspecies of human that is just ate up with the dumba$$.
History is full of examples of grizzly bears being shot multiple times and not slowing down at all. In fact, people have shot at a grizzly from a distance with the only result being that the grizzly, who previously had shown no interest, was now charging them.
Well, #2 makes sense, but as for #1, hell, the gunshot could have been a really nasty hornet, as far as the bear knew.
The bear may be able to see, smell, or hear you since you had a clear shot of it. Their senses are light years beyond ours. I don't really know. But if you are shooting at a bear it is probably charging anyway. Otherwise why bother. Unless it's hunting season on bears. If the later, you would know to be using a very large caliber weapon on it.
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