Got charged by a bear!!!

[JackOfAllTrades]

I bet it figured you were a pack of yotes killing something and it wanted in on the kill, and then winded you and decided to sneak away instead...

 I'm goin with that.

It was one of the only times I didn't and the last time I don't pack a gun.

Some serious piece of mind to have a hand gun loaded with Bear stoppers hangin on the hip. I would not bet on the hound and Austrailian shepard in a Bear fight if there are no trees for the blackie to climb. Yotes are pretty quick little buggers, and I see Yote fur in Bear chit every year. If the dogs are good, and tree the Bear, fine. But if the Bear feels the need to fight, I bet the doggies would be worse for the wear.

-Steve

[BLUEBULLS]

the bear never got down wind, there was a stiff breeze blowing in our face. I was yelling at him pretty good the whole time maybe that got him to stop.

I was glad there were plenty of rocks around as the guy I was with was one of the best pitchers this state has seen.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Rocks is for kids. I'd still rather be packin my Ruger RedHawk with some 300gn Sierra's loaded to the hilt! 

-Steve

[saylean]

I have read that if you are attacked by a black bear, it (for the most part) is a predatory response. They are trying to eat you (as opposed to browns, which attack cause they see you as a threat), so fight with all you got.

[WDFW-SUX]

Ive read that day time attacks are about mistaken identity or cubs and to play dead and when they come after dark there looking for dinner and its time to fight. All of my close encounters have been in day light and they all were bluff charges

[CMG]

Just a thought but maybe it wasn't a charge and that was just the direction it wanted go to flee.

  I would agree with lowedog...even at 300yrds in the open they probably didn't see you, Sound may have echoed and disorientated the direction of where the bear thought the threat was coming from.
 Once while hunting I walked up on a bear a hundred yrds away, grunted a noise to let him know I was there, and he bolted straight towards me.....until he actually saw me, and veered off just 50' or so in front of me!
  My brother was napping mid day on a rock once and I watched a bear walk within 50 yards below him (I was glassing him from an adjacent hillside, waiting for that bear to scare the Sh*&* out him)  He woke up from a noise, saw the bear and decided to throw a rock, thinking it would scare him off... The rock landed behind the bear.. the bear thought the danger was coming from behind him and the bear charged up the hill, right at him, I think the bear smelled the chit hit the friut-of-a-looms at about 10 yrds and bolted back down the hill.  Still love to tell that story around the campfire! 

[JackOfAllTrades]

Shot my Bear at relative close range with a frontal/quarting toward shot, and he came right at me like shot out of a canon. He didn't know I was there at all!  If it wasn't for the windfall between us.. Who knows what would have happened. He turned and ran up a skidder road only to fall to his perril not some 40yds later. I don't know that any of use can predict what direction they're going to go when they feel threatened.

-Steve

[Jeremy S]

Where's the video?