Bear-hunting is often undertaken by one man alone. When he gets on the trail of a bear, he puts his dog on a lead, having tied up its mouth so that it cannot bark. Once the dog has caught a scent of the bear, it begins to become uneasy and to pull on the lead, which lets the Lapp know for sure that the bear is not far away. As soon as the Lapp knows in which direction the bear is, he adjusts his approach so that the wind blows from the bear to the man and not vice versa. Thus the bear, which is half blind in bright light and cannot see far, does not pick up his scent and the Lapp crawls to within gunshot of it. Once he has loosed off at the bear, which in autumn is usually just going about picking berries, and if the shot does not strike home, the bear is quick to his feet and sets off after the little Lapp. The Lapp takes to his heels as fast as he can but leaves his knapsack behind in the place where he was. When the bear reaches it, he tears and smites the bag into a 1000 fragments. The Lapp, meanwhile, whose hand is by no means unsure, reloads and fires off a second shot, at which the bear either falls or flees.