YOU are 100% correct--a couple of seasons ago, a friend of mine and I were bow hunting by Yellowstone National Park..he was on one side of the draw and me on the other---he suddenly heard a noise above him.. he looked up and saw a boar grizzly staring at him at about 50 yards..he was carring a .44 S&W on his hipp--the bear charged--my friend dropped his bow and went for his handgun--he did NOT have time to clear leather and the bear was 10 yards from him--thankfully the bear stoppped---chompped his teeth a few times and turned --slowly quartering away.. my friend said he felt all the blood drain from his head as he thought this was it--going to the big hunting grounds in the sky.. he also said there is NO way he could have fired a shot before that bear would have been on him.. upon closer inspection we discovered that the bear was feeding on a elk carcass and was making sure we knew it was his...needless to say we stayed out of there for the next couple of weeks..

Ripp