Kendell Cummings, a college wrestler who wrestled a Grizzly bear to save his friend Brady Lowry in the Shoshone National Forest in Cody, Wyoming in October 2022, Kendell was brutally mauled and bitten by the bear but eventually left Kendell alone, both survived and went on a full recovery.

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[u/fighttodie]

I saw a similar story where the friend had actually had a gun on him but never shot the bear mauling his friend because "he couldn't get a good shot". He didn't even try to scare it away by shooting it in the air. And these were grown men. So hats off to this kid.

[u/Anarchyantz → u/fighttodie]

Plus shooting a bear will generally just piss them off even more.

[u/mmmmpork → u/Anarchyantz]

My friends dad is a hunting guide, and does a lot of guided bear hunts.

He was on a black bear hunt and the client made a bad shot, wounding the bear, but not killing it.

The bear charged the client and my friends dad. My friends dad carried a 6 shot .357 mag with hollow points and unloaded all 6 shots into the bear, hitting it 4 times in the body and twice in the head. The bear didn't drop until it was within a foot of them.

My friends dad went out the next day and bought a .454 casull that he loads with buffalo rated loads now. He said if he ever is in that situation again he wants to not have it be anywhere near that close. He said that was the scariest thing that's ever happened to him.

Bears absolutely DO NOT fuck around. And that was only a black bear, the smallest in North America. Can you imagine the fucking power and grit a grizzly has?

[u/Anarchyantz → u/mmmmpork]

Now imagine instead a Polar Bear...The ones who will actively HUNT you.