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Last evening my son-in-law took their garbage can down to the end of the driveway. He continued to walk down the railroad tracks to check on some of his trail cameras. He heard a scuffling noise and looked up in a cherry tree to find a cub climbing. He momentarily watched, then heard sounds of something running through the underbrush. Momma ran out on the tracks and charged Joe. He turned and ran she must have figured she had protected her cub from harm and didn't chase too far. This morning the trashcan was overturned and garbage3 scattered everywhere. Now none of the grandchikdren are allowed to venture down on the railroad tracks.

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Running away is the last thing you want to when you encounter a bear. Luckily, bears seldom have any desire to attack humans. But running often will make the animal see you as prey and make him chase you. Talking loudly and moving away slowly, avoiding eye contact is usually the wisest move.

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I whole heartedly agree, Scott. Joe will even admit that he knows better. I guess he mustn't have had much time to think rationally. I've yet to surprise a sow with cubs. I can't say for certain exactly how I'd actually react.

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yea, mama bears are crazy. I saw a cub on the shore of a lake (Allatoona) while out sailing one time and followed it around the point into a cove that was protected from the wind. BAD IDEA!!! mama's swimming towards me, I'm trying to find enough wind to get out of there or at least turn the boat enough so I'm not going towards the dang thing, eventually abandon ship and had to swim a mile back across the lake. Went and got the boat later in the day with something with a motor.

 

Glad your SIL is ok.

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Seems to me running is a normal reaction for a lot of folks, it's not a Bengal Tiger/ Lion.... And.... It worked! Nice post....

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Running away is the last thing you want to when you encounter a bear. Luckily, bears seldom have any desire to attack humans. But running often will make the animal see you as prey and make him chase you. Talking loudly and moving away slowly, avoiding eye contact is usually the wisest move.

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I'd pee myself first then run!!!!!!

I'd be lucky if that's all that  happened.

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When were scared we can run as fast as we want too, not as fast as we can.

I been hunting bears since 1973 up in the green mountains of Vermont. It's the thrill of the hunt. It's watching mother nature at its finest. It makes me wonder how smart the animals really are.

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My ground blind was a brush pile under an Apple tree. At 5pm dinner time I guess. I heard a rustling in the brush pile. A red squirrel climbed through the brush to get a closer look at me. He climbed out on a branch so we were about 3' apart nose to nose. He checked me out as I sat still. He leaves then climbs up the Apple tree where he has a half eaten Apple stuck in the vee of the branch. He proceeds to remove it and slowly turns it as he eats it. He returns it to the vee of the branch and leaves. Here I am sitting there in early October watching a red squirrel eat his dinner as it's getting darker and colder. By no means are the animals dumb.

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Cool story and glad everyone was ok.  I have seen a few bears and only had one close encounter though.  I was fishing about 2 miles up a small stream here in Virginia.  I was chasing rookies so i was being pretty quiet and stealth.   I was fishing a small pool on my knees when up river i her some noise.  I look up and see 2 bear cubs but no momma in sight.  I sat and didn't move as they were probably 20 yards away.  they played in the stream for a bit and then momma bear came down.  She took a look around and sniffed a little but then moved on their merry way.  i was never so happy to be casting into a headwind as i was that day.  If something happened to me out there i am not sure anyone would have found me for a while lol 

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Running away is the last thing you want to when you encounter a bear. Luckily, bears seldom have any desire to attack humans. But running often will make the animal see you as prey and make him chase you. Talking loudly and moving away slowly, avoiding eye contact is usually the wisest move.

 

One summer a few years ago I was at a park nearby running sprints. it is heavily wooded around the park and i saw what i thought was a dog coming up along the edge of the woods right beyond the clearing and sure enough a very large black bear walks right out and is only about 30ft from me. It froze when it saw me and i froze as well and it had that look that it was going to do one of two things. turn around and go back the way it came to get away from me, or charge me. I did not run, I made some noises at it just to see what its next move was going to be. But if that thing took one more step in my direction I was gonna make a break for it. Luckily for me it turned around. My heart rate was elevated for about an hour after that.lol But I can't blame his son in law for running. If a bear charges me I am not sticking around either!lol I started carrying pepper spray when I did my outdoor exercise in that area. 

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"Cool story bro" time a-gain.................My mother in law used to live in the woods, a bear came right in the back yard to see what was going on one day while we were having a mothers day picnic. I yelled at it, and waved a stick menacingly in it's direction and it went away. It was "just" a small black bear, but that's what I had always been told you do with a bear...is yell at it and they will run, they are more scared of you I guess. Now if it was some giant grizzly I might have not tried that.

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I seen bear tracks and scat in my freshly tilled garden. Never seen the bear. My wife's girl friend says she seen a bear as long as my kitchen table with the double leafs in cross the road down the street from my house. That's like 6' long. I thought she was kidding me. It showed up in my yard one night. It froze as my dog went to it. My wife went after the dog and they were maybe 25' from the bear. I got mad that she took that chance to save the dog. The bear is that big maybe 375lbs to 400lbs easy. He cleans my fruit trees every fall. I'm a bear hunter but this bruin gets a pass.

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I'm sorry but if a bear starts running at me I'm gonna run, its gonna be instincts.

I don't know if I'd have the guts to stand there and yell at it haha...

Agreed. Don't know how long he will chase me, but I know how long I will run!

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