I'll add some more here to my above bear post.

I had a friend with me that day and he was carrying a double rifle, he also had a bear tag. I spotted the bear in an opening on a hill side and it was sitting like a dog faceing us. I told the guy to shoot the bear square in the chest!! My friend just kept stareing at the bear shakeing his head "NO" back and forth!!

About then the bear raised it's nose in the air, and i knew our cover was blown! I moved for a better shot just as the bear let out one HE** of a growl, and started popping it's jaws!!!! I remember feeling the hair on the back of my neck raiseing, at least that's what it felt like.

The bear came chargeing at us, and i was by far more worried about my friend shooting me in the back than i was about the bear!!! Once the bear moved off, i noticed my friend "frozen stiff" with the bbls of his rifle still pointing straight up into the air!! I was so relieved that he wasn't pointing them at me!!!

About then my friend told me, and i quote: "I was so scared, and my A** was puckered up so tight you couldn't have pounded a pin up it with a sledge hammer!!!"

A week or so later when we flew out of the bush, i heard him say the same quote to his other friends, and by then it was all pretty funny!! hee he heee

Drilling Man