I haven’t been fishing yet. I’ve hunted a lot. I got killed by the legendary bear once. I was tracking it and then I hear a growl from the right via surround sound. I spin to see the bear looking at me. I pullout the lever action but before I can get a bullet in the chamber he’s on me and tearing me to pieces. Shit was intense dude. I’ll get that fucker eventually.
My encounter went very similar to the Hugh Glass tale. You can stab him in the chest when he's mauling you. And I truly wonder if that's the intended way to kill him because I put a ton of shots into him before he mounted me.
"Despite his injuries, Glass regained consciousness, but found himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment. He had festering wounds, a broken leg, and deep cuts on his back that exposed his bare ribs. Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 miles (320 km) from the nearest American settlement, at Fort Kiowa, on the Missouri River. Glass set the bone of his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling back to Fort Kiowa. To prevent gangrene, Glass allowed maggots to eat the dead, infected flesh in his wounds."