Diane K. Boyd
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610 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Oh, my gosh.
Oh, yeah. I hadn't heard that when I saw Steve.
Yes. And what I would point out with that is that that bear had every chance in the world to kill every one of those guys. It didn't hurt any of them.
It wouldn't matter. They weren't armed.
Hit the bear in the face?
It's terrifying.
Maybe they left a little behind.
That's a good move. I mean, yeah, I probably would have. Leave the shoulders and the neck.
My point is that bear could have run through and killed one of them or all of them in a moment of anger. It didn't. It did a bluff charge. It turned around. It woofed and gnashed its teeth.
It could have killed them, seriously. Sure.
Right. And then we have this happen a lot in Montana. Every year, at least one person is killed by a bear, or many can be injured. And the thing that's common is they say the bear charged them, and before that, it was woofing. And a lot of times, they do what's called a bluff charge, but...
People don't want to wait until the bear is 15 feet away to figure out if it's a bluff charge or not, so they shoot them. And bear spray is very, very effective because you can do a longer distance, and it's accurate. But I personally don't... The science shows, and many of your listeners won't believe this, the science shows that average hunter is better off with a bear spray than a firearm.
But... In a moment of panic, you can't say what you would do.
To survive with less injury or at least less fatal. And people have sprayed a bear that's attacking somebody and the bear breaks off and leaves. Of course, you've got to deal with the after. Have you ever been around bear spray, pepper spray?
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's awful. How did you get everybody to go off camera and get?
I think pepper spray – yeah, it might even be worse. Otherwise, they'd have tear gas for bear repellent, and they don't. They have pepper spray.
It's bad. But I'm just saying – and people can argue this, and it all depends on the situation. But in general – Bear spray is a more effective tool because you can spray it three times past where he's sitting and the bear hits that spray and they run away.
And I guess I've heard the bear biologists say to me, try shooting a rolling tire at 40 miles an hour and see how accurate your shots are because that's what you're shooting at if a bear is charging you.
And it's difficult to keep your act together.
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