How would you defend yourself against a bear with only a pocketknife?

GroundZero

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run down hill
bears front legs are shorter than their back legs, going down a steep hill with the bear chasing you would cause the bear to tumble. then run back up the hill after the bear rolls past you. get out your pocket knife cut down a redwood and whittle a baseball bat out of it to beat the bear to death with when he gets back to the top of the hill.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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I would sacrifice you to the bear, and run like hell while it ate you alive.

Hows that?
 

flxnimprtmscl

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Use the pocketknife to carve up some logs and fashion them into a crude fort. Outside the fort would be a spike pit that I built with my ever so trusty pocket knife. Inside the fort, I'd have a dozen or so spears that I'd st@b the bastard with (if the spike pit didn't get him) compliments of my wonderful pocket knife. Let's see some bear beat that.
 

nan0bug

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stick my left arm in his mouth and use my right arm to stab him in the eyes, neck, and try to cut his jaw muscles.
 

BurnItDwn

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I would do my best to stab it as many times as possible. I would also try to keep my head from getting bit or smashed with its claws. If its less than like 300 pounds, I'd have a chance, if its one of those bigass polar bears, then at least I'd go down fighting.
 

TitanDiddly

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Play dead. If you have a 12 guage shotgun full of slugs, play dead. Anything short of air support with stinger heatseaking missles- play dead.
 

HappyPuppy

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Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Play dead. If you have a 12 guage shotgun full of slugs, play dead. Anything short of air support with stinger heatseaking missles- play dead.



This works, as well.
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