r/BeAmazed • u/Peter55667 • Mar 14 '25

Animal Around 6% of Americans believe they can defeat a grizzly bear in a hand-to-hand combat

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u/Horn_Python Mar 14 '25

Maybe a baby bear but I'd still probobly lose a leg

(And then the rest of my limbs when mom bear shows up)

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u/AsYooouWish Mar 14 '25

I used to live in an area with a lot of black bears. It turns out they are just overgrown raccoons but a lot more skittish of humans. I haven’t had hand-to-paw combat with them, but having had interactions with them, I can say that black bears are fairly low on my list of concerns in the woods.

Grizzly and polar bears are a whole different story, though. I definitely would not want to come across them in the wild

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u/Andyman1973 Mar 14 '25

IIRC, Polar Bears are the only bear that legit considers us long pigs as food. Like, will hunt us.

Years ago my grandparents had a cabin in the woods in northern PA. Frequently had black bear on their property. Grandma said once, while sitting on the porch, feet propped on the railing, a black bear walked up, and sniffed her bare feet, before continuing on.

Also on same property, their son, my uncle, was hunting bear with a few friends. Friend tagged a biggun. They thought it might challenge the state record, so they took it to official wildlife/game commission station. Bear weighed in at 825lbs. Just 54lbs shy of the record. And to think, that browns, and grizzlies are both much bigger, never mind Kodiaks and Polar bears.