My wife doesn't hunt and is scared of them from all the stuff you see on TV. I see them all the time when I am deer hunting here in Vt or elk hunting Colorado and they don't bother me. I leave them alone and they do the same. Then again they aren't grizzleys. I am glad there aren't griz's in the area I elk hunt in southern Colorado. Bad enough keeping an eye out for a lion when you go back to your kill for another pack trip..