It is amazing how mean a dead black bear can get.
My wifes cousin runs a pack of bear and lion dogs and does a lot of guiding for bear and lion. his dogs had a bear up a tree and his hunter made a bad shot (generally pretty easy shots) anyway the bear came down so he cut the dogs loose again and they ran him into some thick scrub oak, that you couldn't walk in. They waited until the dogs got quiet and he went in on his hands and knees, all he carried was a browning hipower. He got to where he could see the bear and a couple of dogs were chewing on it, so thought it was graveyard dead, when he got around 10 feet from it the bear opened his eyes and spotted him, he said all he had time to do was to push off and hit it something like a line man playing football. It mauled him pretty good before he convinced it, that it was dead with that little browning. lol