Hunting a bear from a boat

[octarine]

Hello,

My friend and I have a question (because we don't agree about the answer) about bear hunting.

Yesterday, we were fighting against a bear from a boat, he ran away 3 or 4 times, but always came back.
Suddenly, he ran away and we lost him. We looked for him everywhere but we never find him.

The question is : did he disappeared or not ?

I've seen that on the wiki and we don't know if this is true or not :

Other cheap ranged tactic: Shoot at the bear from a boat or shallow water that's out of its reach. As of world 5 the bear will run away if you deal too much damage to it in a single shot or during a short interval (which seems to be around 80 damage) but will likely come back. Aftewards, it will not retreat anymore.

[krikke93]

As I don't hunt from my boat but only face to face, I don't know much about this tactic. All I know is that when they run away, they mostly will come back but if you're unlucky they'll slay away.
You said that he dissapeared. I don't know if that's possible or not, but I think they must be miles away to despawn.

I'm sorry if I'm giving the wrong information here. This is what I think of it, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[ImAwesome]

bears run, alot. I've had 2 despawn on me in the last few days. once they run the best thing to do is aim and deagro. if you deagro it stops running(instead of turning) if it hits a tree or boulder, giving you a chance to shoot it. theres a chance that next shot might make it run again but more than likely s/he'll come charging back(a quick unaimed shot that misses usually guarantees it). if you're doing pretty good damage to a bear it may run away every time you shoot it, I never read that bit on the wiki about it not running any more after the first time, but its bs.

[Potjeh]

If you shoot when it twitches it won't run.

[krikke93]

If you shoot when it twitches it won't run.

twitches?

[TeckXKnight]

When an animal attempts to repath it will make a motion as if moving towards you even if its path is obstructed by a river, cliff, wall, etc.. This is referred to as twitching.

[Nostur]

Honestly twitch shooting never worked for me, most of the time I miss. As goes for the main question, do you use slings or bows? I used to hunt with sling (my MM is 41) and it was good, even the boars came back, when I switched to bow most of the animals ran out and i lost them, because of high DPT (damage per time). I switched to a sling yesterday and got four boars and one bear, from my boat, only two boars disappeared, the other 4 came back. Also a tip, if it keeps running away, wait for it to come back, then lose aggro, give it some time and aggro him again, he will not run anymore, or at least for a while.

[krikke93]

When an animal attempts to repath it will make a motion as if moving towards you even if its path is obstructed by a river, cliff, wall, etc.. This is referred to as twitching.

Oh, so a really useful tip from Potjeh