What an awesome experience! But I agree you are crazy if you go back to that stand without a pistol. There was a story in the paper here in Arkansas a few years ago about an old boy from up in the Ozarks that walked up on a mama bear with some cubs and she attacked him. All he could get to was a skinny sapling so he could not get very high without bending it over, so she was able to chew his heels off of his feet! The old dude had to wait there until she finally left and crawled to his truck and drove himself to the emergency room in Harrison--hour drive or more as I remember it....