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Maybe the door handle sounds like a revolver being cocked?Maybe that's how it is in "the big city", but black bears been roaming around here for years. I'm surprised I haven't seen more in the 50+ years I've lived in Kidnap county.
In the particular case of the video I shot, it ends where it does, because I wanted to get in a better position to continue videoing it, so I paused it and was gonna head out onto the porch.
I turned the door handle very slowly, as I didn't want to spook the bear, but that handle is a bit notchy, and as I turned it, it let the quietest "click" and that's all it took.
It was like a scene out of Bugs Bunny...that bear spun around in a circle 3 times and shot off into the woods, quicker than $h!t!
I tried to get out there to continue the video, but it all happened too fast, so the video ends where it ends.
It's been by a couple more times, but I haven't seen it in quite a few years now.
The moral of this story? Leave the .45 and the bear spray at home. Next time you go into the woods, pack along an old Schlage door handle.
Turns out, bear's more scared of one of those than anything else!