I've shot all of mine from the ground, includeing the brown bears i've shot.

I prefer to glass for bears and then stalk them, or sometimes sit where i know they will show up. Like in a berry patch.

Nothing against "tree hunters", but if your up in a tree because your scared, why be out there at all???

I had a bow hunting friend who was just about to go up a tree to his stand and a bear came after him. He went up the tree and dropped his pack, bow, and shotgun as the bear hit his legs. He made it up the tree, and the bear climbed up after him. My friend took a stick and kept pokeing the bear in the eyes, untill the bear went back down to the ground.

For the next two hours, he sat in the tree watching the bear take his pack apart, and chew on his bow, then shotgun. He had to come down after dark, but he did have a little maglite with him. He said the first thing he did was go for the shotgun, but the bear was long gone.

He sat in that tree day after day after that trying to get that same bear, but he never did.

We all got a good laugh out of that one!!

Drilling Man