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<blockquote data-quote="fta0303" data-source="post: 3093751" data-attributes="member: 43503"><p>I always carried a Ruger Super Blackhawk while hiking the sub-alpine country in Mt Rainier park, keeping it accessible but discreetly hidden. Sorry.</p><p></p><p>A grizzly sow and cubs can go 3 ways: 1) the cubs run far away in the opposite direction - the sow will likely follow them, or might stay to maul you 2) the cubs tree nearby - the sow will maul you 3) the cubs are yearlings and approach you out of curiosity - the sow will use you to teach predation to her cubs - this will be fatal encounter. The third instance and the instance in which you violate a grizzly's food cache will be fatal encounters - the bear will try to kill you. Many other grizzly encounters may be of the educational mauling kind - the grizzly hurts you but leaves you alive to communicate your fearsome experience to your species-mates. </p><p></p><p>Grizzlies grow increasingly aggressive toward people if they aren't hunted. Think of the grizzly's educational mauling - it is analogous to a human hurting the grizzly in a human-bear encounter - the grizzly learns that humans can hurt him and may somehow communicate that to his species-mates. Using a handgun will hurt the bear if you hit him, maybe that will contribute to bears avoiding humans in that area. I can't guess at the effect of bear spray in this context.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fta0303, post: 3093751, member: 43503"] I always carried a Ruger Super Blackhawk while hiking the sub-alpine country in Mt Rainier park, keeping it accessible but discreetly hidden. Sorry. A grizzly sow and cubs can go 3 ways: 1) the cubs run far away in the opposite direction - the sow will likely follow them, or might stay to maul you 2) the cubs tree nearby - the sow will maul you 3) the cubs are yearlings and approach you out of curiosity - the sow will use you to teach predation to her cubs - this will be fatal encounter. The third instance and the instance in which you violate a grizzly's food cache will be fatal encounters - the bear will try to kill you. Many other grizzly encounters may be of the educational mauling kind - the grizzly hurts you but leaves you alive to communicate your fearsome experience to your species-mates. Grizzlies grow increasingly aggressive toward people if they aren't hunted. Think of the grizzly's educational mauling - it is analogous to a human hurting the grizzly in a human-bear encounter - the grizzly learns that humans can hurt him and may somehow communicate that to his species-mates. Using a handgun will hurt the bear if you hit him, maybe that will contribute to bears avoiding humans in that area. I can't guess at the effect of bear spray in this context. [/QUOTE]
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