That gun must work really well since there are less than one person a year injured or killed by bears in Alaska!
Not sure they share the one gun. On average 4 fatalities per year in Alaska from Bear attacks, couldn't find numbers for surviving attacks though. The odds are with you not being attacked but they aren't zero, I guess it's better to have it and not need it.
No problem! "Department of Health and Social Services Adam Crum, MSPH, Commissioner Anne Zink, MD, Chief Medical Officer Division of Public Health Heidi Hedberg, Director Editors: Joe McLaughlin, MD, MPH Louisa Castrodale, DVM, MPH Volume No. 21 Number 2 3601 C Street, Suite 540 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Fatalities During 2000–2017, there were 10 bear-related fatalities resulting from 8 unique bear attacks (Figure 1). Half of the attacks occurred in June and all occurred during June through October (Figure 2). Of the 10 fatal bear attack victims, 6 (60%) were Alaska residents, 7 (70%) were male, and 9 (90%) were White (Table 1). Bear attack mortality was variable across age groups and regions of Alaska (Table 1; Figure 3)."
https://bearviewinginalaska.com/how-many-bear-attacks-in-alaska-per-year/ More recent bear attacks From 2020-2022 there were 6 fatal grizzly bear attacks and 2 fatal black bear maulings. In Alaska, the current average of hospitalization by bear attack is 3.8 a year. There have been more in the following years, those stats are for more recent years 2020 onwards.
Official lists of Alaska bear fatalities from 2020 to 2025 are 4. Which is entirely as expected and in line with the previous 17 years. No links as you don't open them. But I expect Wiki (if you use it?) will confirm. Ai says 3.8 according to google search but I don't believe anything from that bogus source. I was surprised that at the number of bear fatalities across the whole of the USA & Canada, which is possibly why the Ai figures appear (to me) to be way too high.
