Originally Posted by Birdwatcher
"How come you ain't dead?"

I've had three very close encounters of the bruin kind, and so far have never been afraid. Yesterday at one point I was 8 feet from the bear and discovered that I was about 4 feet from my rifle, which I leaned against a tree while I took my pack off. I felt a little anxious about what he would do, but I can't say I was ever afraid. Maybe stoopid, yes, but not afraid.

Black bears are almost never hostile toward man. When they are, it's usually a campground situation.

Steve

"I was a deerhunter long before I was a man." ~Gene Wensel's Come November (2000)
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." ~Theodore Roosevelt