r/canadaguns • u/dke783 • May 07 '26

Shooting Have you ever had a bear incident?

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Honest question: have you ever had to fend off an aggressive bear in Canada? (hunting or otherwise) What happened,​ and what worked for your response? ​​

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u/Hmfic_48 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Had some close encounters with black bears in Petawawa but nothing i would categorize as aggressive, just curious and a bit of a nuisance.

They would rip open our rucks and steal our IMPs but would leave if set off bear bangers or made enough noise. We had to fire off some blanks a couple times when we didn't have the bangers readily available.

The trench beside me had a cub fall into it and on to one of the troops inside. He gently gave it a boost out and it carried on.

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u/above_thetreeline May 08 '26

Bears were never an issue in wainwright. The fucking moose, elk and deer on the other hand was a different story, the deer weren’t dangerous dismounted but in blue fleet they were fucking deadly

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u/AgreeablePanda9805 May 11 '26

What’s blue fleet mean?

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u/above_thetreeline May 11 '26

Civilian pattern vehicles, more often then not they were navy blue, hence the name. Basically they weren’t army trucks, F-350s, econoline vans shit like that.