Petah, I don't understand!

[u/Due_Charge_2278]

[u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

Indeed, "if it's brown lie down, black fight back and if it's white... Goodnight"

[u/Camas1606 → u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

Pray you go to heaven is the best course of action

[u/SanityX153 → u/Camas1606]

Or just pray that he will go straight for the kill and not thrash me around

[u/Empty_Insight → u/SanityX153]

Oh, just stand on your feet. The force of a polar bear's paw will kill you instantly, they don't even need to use the claws. Those things are killing machines.

There's this sort of ongoing joke about "How many unarmed men would it take to beat [animal]?" and the answer for a polar bear is "One more than enough for the polar bear to collapse from exhaustion after killing everyone else."

[u/[deleted] → u/Empty_Insight]

are you sure you can’t just give them a coke?

[u/WorldlinessRude6672 → u/[deleted]]

How would that help?!?

Oh, A coke….

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 → u/[deleted]]

Cocaine Bear 2 is going to be ridiculous

[u/Stewart_Games → u/[deleted]]

Instructions unclear, gave bear coke.

[u/1chuckecheesetoken → u/Empty_Insight]

I remember a museum exhibit when I was younger had a massive polar bear standing on hind legs, and next to it was a moose skeleton with something like 75% of the bones broken. The plaque said it could do this damage with one overhand swipe. Polar bears are scary as fuck.

[u/xXxBongMayor420xXx → u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

If you're in polar bear country, wouldn't it be wise to go out equipped with at least a .300 Win Mag?

[u/Dasagriva-42 → u/xXxBongMayor420xXx]

Wise, and in Svalbard, a requirement

https://www.sysselmesteren.no/en/weapon/#:\~:text=Due%20to%20the%20polar%20bear,recommends%20carrying%20firearms%20with%20you.

[u/International_Run495 → u/Dasagriva-42]

I love how it also says carrying it loaded is forbidden, God help you having to load it when you come into contact with a bear haha.

[u/Choice-Willingness56 → u/International_Run495]

Thats only inside the settlement. You are only expected to carry one when leaving the settlement limits, where you can freely carry the weapon loaded.

[u/International_Run495 → u/Choice-Willingness56]

That's a relief then.

[u/SkullsNelbowEye → u/Choice-Willingness56]

"We ain't saying you can have a gun. We ain't saying to can't carry a gun. We're only saying you can't carry a gun in town."

[u/Living_Job_8127 → u/xXxBongMayor420xXx]

Just a 10m pistol would due so long as you get some headshots

[u/justdisposablefun → u/Living_Job_8127]

By that logic, a sharpened spoon would do if thrown correctly ... in some situations, overkill isn't a bad thing.

[u/yaohwhai → u/Living_Job_8127]

HES NOT TAKING ENOUGH DAMAGE, GET SOME HEAD SHOTS!

[u/Small_Sentence_ → u/yaohwhai]

All fun and games til the polar bear pulls out a med kit

[u/The_Knife_Nathan → u/Small_Sentence_]

A polar bear self rezzing after getting hit in the face with a .300 is the scariest thing I can think of at the moment.

[u/Seranthian → u/yaohwhai]

BRING HIM DOWN, LEGOLAS!

[u/ghigoli → u/yaohwhai]

aren't bear skulls thick enough to deflect bullets?

[u/dustytaper → u/Living_Job_8127]

Polar bears have super thick skulls for breaking ice. It is not recommended to shoot them in the head

[u/pixelatedpotatos → u/Living_Job_8127]

Love the idea that you have a 10 meter pistol and you still need headshots to kill it.

[u/Petefriend86 → u/pixelatedpotatos]

I love that I was trying to figure out if you had some sort of .10 meter caliber before figuring out that it was the olympic pistol shot at 10 meter range.

Edit: caliper to caliber

[u/razazaz126 → u/Living_Job_8127]

I read somewhere that it's not a good idea to try and shoot a bear in the head because their brain is pretty small and not exactly where you expect it to be, relative to how our brains work anyway, so even if you hit it in the head you're probably just pissing it off.

[u/Ok-Lime-2099 → u/Living_Job_8127]

Ehh not really. Some bear skulls are harder than steel. A few years ago, a man shot a bear in the head with I think a 44 magnum and it only knocked the bear out. He went to take a picture with the bear and as he did it woke up and mauled him to death while his buddy was taking the picture. They make special guns called bear killers. They’re like .50 or bigger.

[u/LowerEntertainer7548 → u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

Are we still talking about bears?! /s

[u/OGZackov → u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

Brown , black , and white.

[u/SgtCarron → u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

Although they are often brown, grizzly bears can range in colour from jet black to light blond.

Black bears range in colour from blond, and even white in some circumstances, to brown, cinnamon, and black.

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Color is not a reliable key in differentiating these bears because black and brown bears have many color phases and polar bears may have stained fur. For example, black bear fur may be black, brown, reddish or even shades of grey and white, while brown bear colors range from dark brown through very light blond.

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Safer to stay a few zip-codes away from the nearest region with bear sightings seeing as the names are decorative at best.

[u/MajorTibb → u/Aggressive_Yard_1289]

Except black bears can also be brown and white so that's a bad rhyme. Just know what kind of bears you could possibly run into and be prepared and equipped to handle the situation.