I've been charged and it was scary. We used to train people with this big bear shaped target that we would pull toward them on a track while they blasted away with a shotgun. When I was charged I had my rifle out and just kept shooting until it stopped charging. With a stick I would have freaked!

I'll be your pitchfork-man. I don't have a pike. Are their many bears in Oregon? There are plenty here.

You Brits are some truly sick bastards! But we've got you beat one up here in the eastern US. The climate's really gotten us all very upset, and we're terribly moody about it, and so we take it out on Great American Jabberwocks that used to roam in our forests so freely. What we do is approach them speaking calmy but firmly with our hands outstretched, offering them a beer. When they accept the beer, we keep them drinking until they're sodding drunk. At which point, we scream out that they've just tried to cop a feel on us, and the lawyers and litigators, which are hiding in the bushes, jump out and open fire, peppering the poor bastard with legal mumbo jumbo and litigational phrases., effectively sueing it unconcious. At which point, the creature is netted into a frivolous and farsical legal battle, costing millions of dollars and stretching over long periods of time, until at last, the creature, unable to fight off the hordes of reporters and paprazzi, agrees to its own reality show, which eventually drives it to ruin, where much like the British Jabberwocks, it penultimately and finalistically takes its own life. We then stuff the head and place it over the pictures of our grandmothers over the fireplace. That's just the American way...

i woman outside the butchers were i work triped on a slab so shes sueing the council first she called claims direct then her son then the ambulance

first thing she saw was money not stars all the lower branches of the nearest trees have been cut down so kids cant climb on them and the swings have been taken down from the park all because of people like her

I might be able to take on a bear with a pointed stick on both ends if..
-It were a boomstick- meaning basically a shock activated 12 gauge shotgun
- And if I were wearing a riot suit
-And if the (small) bear was dead on his claws high

piece of cake

I once shot a blowgun dart at an old stuffed bear that I found somewhere. Does this count as hunting bears with blowguns?

Only because I was inside! And frankly, I think my wall, as you said, has suffered enough from all of the other projectile weapons.