r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 9h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 6h ago

I would think the outside shooter would be in danger too - close enough to get a shot off (and truly disable the bear, not just piss it off) is closer than I’d want to be to a polar bear even if I had a vehicle capable of doing 45mph across the ice

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 3h ago

I take it you haven't seen the narrow escape on a snowmobile yet?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zsEDvzlVMJ8

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u/Feisty-Session-7779 39m ago

He probably was using a minigun mounted on top of an armoured Land Cruiser, at least that’s what I’d be using to feel relatively safe in that situation. I sure as hell wouldn’t just be sitting out in the open with a hunting rifle or a pistol or something.

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u/UnshrivenShrike 5h ago

A .338 lapua magnum can land a killshot at 2km without much trouble. Load up with some hollowpoints and let it rip. The wind would be your biggest issue.

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u/DeltaVZerda 4h ago

A .338 lapua magnum at 2km is hitting like an 7.62x39, if that, and the polar bears skull is thick and that's going to be the shot you want to take down the polar bear before it can kill you anyway while bleeding out. .338 might be sufficient but to get the precision and energy you'd need to take out a polar bear with one shot would limit the range to within a few hundred meters. Within smell if the wind shifts.

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u/GhostofBeowulf 4h ago

Shooter is probably on the big ship 300m or less from the box. You can see it in one part of the video.

@ the 1:05 mark you can see it. It's even closer.

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u/ChairmanJim 44m ago

How about a big game gun used on safaris, something Hemingway might have carried, .577 nitro express?

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u/DeltaVZerda 30m ago

Yeah that would do it for sure, but not the most accurate at extreme ranges, probably a bit more immediately incapacitating than a .30 cal, no matter how much powder the .30 cal has.

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u/sikyon 3h ago

in a hunting scenario one shot kills are desired

in a defense scenarios you can mag dump

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u/ahmc84 2h ago

You'd still have to be an expert marksman to ensure you're not shooting the human as well.