15 "Strange" Alaskan Bear Tricks the Old Trappers Used When the Rifle Wasn't Enough

📚 Survival guide E-Book: https://www.magnusfrost.com/ A charging grizzly covers 100 feet before you chamber your second round, and up here most men only ever get one. The old trappers knew it. The ones who saw fifty winters weren't the best shots — they were the ones who almost never had to fire, because they carried a set of tricks for turning a bear before it ever became a bullet's problem. Fifteen of them. A couple sound like superstition. But every one got paid for in blood by somebody who learned it the hard way, and they'll keep you breathing long after the rifle's gone quiet. Sources: https://bear.org/bear-facts/spray-more-effective-than-guns-against-bears-study/ https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/montana-outdoors/2014/bear-spray.pdf https://idahoconservation.org/blog/bear-spray-or-fire-arm