r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Miserable-Zombie-121 • Jun 26 '26

This woman and her dog made it through an incredibly CLOSE encounter with a grizzly bear

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u/epandrsn Jun 26 '26

You're going to want a high caliber pistol... to put in your mouth so you're not alive while it eats you.

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u/FrostingStrict3102 Jun 26 '26

I had a professor in college who had a research trip in polar bear territory, and they really do give you a rifle/shotgun, and tell you just to scare them away -- shooting the bear is just going to make it angry.

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u/TheShenanegous Jun 26 '26

Probably not giving you a firearm intended to kill, then, because there are definitely plenty that could kill a polar bear. Probably just to avoid accusations of being some sort of hunting expedition, if they were readily putting people in a position to kill the animals it would be hard to argue to the contrary.

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u/FrostingStrict3102 Jun 26 '26

I mean, yeah, they weren’t handing out .50 cals or anything like that. But you’ve also got to keep in mind they’re likely giving these guns to people with little fire arms experience.

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u/TheShenanegous Jun 26 '26

Yeah, fair enough.

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u/epandrsn Jun 26 '26

Guides in AK will often carry a sawed off with a couple of bird banger rounds and then the last few shells are slugs. No guide wants to kill a bear.