I Love bears. I hunt deer. I would only shoot a bear if I was about to be attacked. My hunting buddy and hunting land owner gets visited on occasion by bears sometimes with cubs. They’ve walked in in the middle of my friend sitting around his campfire. Mom bear on one side and cubs on the other. When mama bear realized the situation she made a loud noise and ran and the cubs followed her. It could have gone very wrong at that point.
getting between mom and cubs is the best way to get hurt by a bear!