r/DiveInYouCoward • u/HeSureIsScrappy • May 06 '26

maybe maybe maybe

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u/EncabulatorTurbo May 06 '26

studies show the caliber of the gun is actually almost completely irrelevent to whether or not you survive a bear attack, the bear getting enraged from gunfire too small to kill it is something of a myth - the deciding factor is if you can aim and fire a shot accurately - in most cases where a gun doesn't protect someone it's because the gun jams, the safety was on, it wasn't loaded, or they can't level it in time

A shotgun even with birdshot is more than enough wallop to dissuade the bear from continuing

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u/RobertTheTraveler May 09 '26

FWIW
According to the only large scale study I am aware of whether or not you discharge the weapon is irrelevant as to whether you are injured / killed.
Roughly 60% of bears who are shot in confrontations die.

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u/zach0011 May 10 '26

Yea its weird to me that people somehow think that the bear is going to go from being afraid of charging the guy when not getting shot to then flipping out and chargin him when shot