So… I cannot imagine any possible scenario for the human to win. I thought of an extra long chainsaw, and using it to stab the charging grizzly, but that merely injures it for a brief fraction of a second while it’s charging the human. And then the grizzly is REALLY pissed off.
I’m in, but you have to supply the carrot and bear.
What do you expect? He didn’t offer the bear a carrot.
You best best is probably hoping that the chainsaw makes enough noise to scare off the bear, then everyone wins and no one dies.
If the grizzly is determined to attack, noise isn’t going to scare it off. If it’s performing a bluff charge it’s not really planning to attack, but the noise might agitate it enough to attack or scare it off. Bears are unpredictable like that.
Done! In fact, I’ll include a pair of Micky Mouse ears to wear during the experiment. This will help me test another hypothesis: are bears, like elephants, afraid of mice?
Agreed. You’d be better off with a real weappn, like a spear, which may not be as impressive as a chainsaw but is actually going to be able to deliver deadly attacks where they need to go.
I’d also say a human with a spear beats a human with a chainsaw 10 out of 10 times.
What if the chainsaw is attached to the end of a pole?
My money is still on the guy with a spear.
A chainsaw needs to be wielded in a very careful and deliberate manner to cut effectively and avoid injuries. A charging-bear scenario is not conducive to this.
If you were able to even touch a charging bear with a chainsaw, it would probably kick back, and then you’d have 2 serious problems to solve instead of 1.
So a bear walks into a bar, and says "I’d like a gin
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and tonic". The bartender says “Here you go. Hey, why the big paws?” The bear looks down and goes “I dunno, I was just born with them.”.
Sorry, that was meant to be a reply to @needscoffee .
A bear with a pronounced limp walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and says “I’m looking for the man who shot my father”.
But a regular human? Better hope that spear hits right the first time. A miss and the other person comes in close quarters and that spear is useless and you’re toast, I would think. I think 10/10 is rather optimistic. I’d probably rather have the chainsaw in that fight, assuming average human beings.
I’d think for a spear to have any chance of lethally impaling a large, charging brown bear, it would need to be very rigid, very sharp, quite long, and held parallel to the ground until the bear was nearly upon you, then angled up, with the base wedged firmly into the ground. If you have the guts to do that, you may have a chance to survive.
You don’t throw the spear, you hold it, aimed at the bear.
Better yet if it’s something like this
https://www.knifecenter.com/item/CS95BOASK/cold-steel-95boask-boar-spear
That’s a pike. Pikes are very effected in quantity but the likelihood of impaling a charging bear is not great. Despite their bulk and deceptively lumbering normal movement, bears are quite fast and surprisingly nimble. They have relatively poor eyesight so they may not perceive the pike in a forward aspect but I wouldn’t want to bet my life on it.
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Hm.
Human with spear vs. human with chainsaw, the chainsaw-wielder has a decent chance, I think, if they target the spear instead of the human. Although that still only reduces the fight to human with a short stick vs. unarmed human, where the human with the short stick still has the edge. Still, probably not ten out of ten.
Yes, but it’s best for the spear’s (pike’s) base to be held wedged into the ground, instead of held by you. A 1000lb bear, in motion, with a tough hide would likely just push a 170lb man or woman backward, with little, or no penetration.
And, yes, you would need to be accurate and time it perfectly. IOW, you need a lot of luck, and guts.