yeah that incident led to a 'no guns at all ever for any reason' policy for that planting company that now relies on keeping a clean camp, deterrents like bear mace and, if necessary, bear fences for a planting camp that really needs them. I mean, especially with a bear, an ounce of prevention is worth tonnes of cure. The bear that came into our camp raided a tent and found food, and one poor guy lost a DSLR camera and his laptop as the bear carried his bag into the woods and was out a couple thousand bucks worth of machinery because of someone else's laziness/stupidity. Unless you're hunting them, it's not that hard to have a bear-safe camp, and bear mace is more than enough to deal with any that come by.

Unless, I suppose, it's a polar bear. Fuck those things are enormous.