Thirteen Yards in One Second: Why a Person Can Never Outrun a Charging Bear

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Survivalists who spend a good portion of their time in the great outdoors understand the risks of coming in contact with one of nature's most ferocious beasts: the bear.

Savvy survivalists often know what to do if they meet a bear in real life, but when they actually come in contact with one, they might find themselves freaking out.

One thing you need to keep in mind if you're ever in such a situation is to keep calm. Easier said than done, we know, but the last thing you want to do is have the bear chase and attack you.

We're about to share a story about one man's scary bear attack and how he survived. His story will also reveal to you how to be prepared and not let something like this happen to you.

You can check out his story and how you can prevent this from happening to you on the next page.

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28 Comments

  1. Timmy Crouch said:

    You have no chance against a charging bear, i have firsthand knowledge of this. Luckily the noise of me banging my knife against my bow scared the cubs away from me and the bear stopped about 6 feet from me. I backed up, she turned her attention to her cubs and i exit stage left in a hurry

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  3. Fred Horn said:

    Kinda like a 10mm. Alot more powerful than people give them credit.

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  5. Mark Mcclure said:

    Better 4 get that out running his$#%&!@*n shot him, if your stupid enough to be out in the woods known to be frequented by bears and you don’t have a serious firearm, your a dumbass anyway or think your bear gyllis

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  6. David Ditler said:

    Bears back legs are longer than their front legs making running downhill difficult. It may be possible to outrun a bear over a short distance going downhill.

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  13. Arctodus Simus said:

    According to Zenas Leonard (1809-1858) who spent time in the wilderness from 1830-1835:

    “The Grizzly Bear is the most ferocious animal that inhabits these prairies, and are very numerous. They no sooner see you than they will make at you with open mouth. If you stand still, they will come within two or three yards of you, and stand upon their hind feet, and look you in the face, if you have fortitude enough to face them, they will turn and run off; but if you turn they will most assuredly tear you to pieces; furnishing strong proof of the fact, that no wild beast, however daring and ferocious, unless wounded, will attack the face of man.”

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  14. Steven Lowe said:

    I never did underestimate them. I’ve been around grizzlies and they are true monsters that nightmares are made of. They even smell like death.

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  17. Ed N Nay Townley said:

    I don’t have to outrun the bear. All I have to do is outrun the people next to me

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  20. Ronnie Gray said:

    Who thinks they could out run a best they are fast ,and if your faced with a brown or grizzly bear you better have a fire arm that can put it down quick and know how to use it but at thirteen yards on a big grizzly or brown bear and for sure a polar bear ,put your head between your legs and kiss your$#%&!@*good bye .and some people think climbing a tree will save them bears can climb ,black bears climb trees all the time and even tho they don’t climb trees most of the time grizzly a and browns can climb also ,seen a true story of a guy climb a tree he was 30 feet up a big male grizzly imbed up that tree fast and snatched him he survived but his skull had holes in it and other places on his body,some one was watching over him ,that was in Montana ,Alaska bears are bigger and meaner from what I have read and shows about them ,and polar bears are something else the have been seen close to hinders miles in the ocean swimming to a new location on the ice and bears are not dumb .

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  28. Wes Lydon said:

    Exactly mike, I never go into bear country without my 30:06 pushing 180grs. Backed up by a good sidearm.

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