Black, Brown or Grizzly?Picking high mountain berries. Have had to kill two. Not happy about it, but...
One with 12ga slug load, the second a 30carbine ruger blackhawk. I was more worried about the 30 carbine doing the job. It worked well enough.
There was a bear right in my own driveway...Coyotes have been really close to the house as well. The dog knows when they have been around.
Any bear will sure get you attention. When I was younger they had a carnival that would set up in our local park (in the 60's). One of the features was bear wrestling. The bear was muzzled and maybe declawed (I'm guessing) but teenagers and young adults at the time would pay to get in there and wrestle a 300lb black bear. The did looks small but still, it's a bear. I was not even a teenager but do remember that attraction.medium black. Not huge, Not huge.