The failure.

I have read about that one before.

In the warning shot category, yes a failure.

But the bear was never struck, supposedly. So how could that be categorized as a failure of the gun to stop the attack.

The failure to hit bear would go in another category, shots fired and missed. That would be an interesting statistic by its self.

This would be pretty high stress event. Only matched, I think, by a deadly encounter, sudden and close with a human being.