I don’t know whether this guy has nerves of steel, or is just a really good actor: I suspect that the former, judging from the lack of panicked gusts of breath or shaky camera footage. Either way, impressive.
Mind you – and no offense to Joy – but even a black bear is unpredictable. Sometimes it wants to say ‘Hi’ and have a beer. Sometimes it wants to rip your face off. Sometimes it wants to rip your face off, then say ‘Hi’ and have a beer. Because it’s a bear.
Moe Lane
PS: Always a good excuse to repost this one.
He probably was relying on a loaded rifle more than nerves of steel. I wouldn’t have let the bear come up that far though, I admit, because as black bears go that one was rather large.
There’s a great quote from the very first episode of the Showtime show Weeds (which I watched at first but lost interest in):
“You can’t miss the bear!”
Kind of like the old saying that alcohol is evil because it makes you shoot at tax collectors and miss.