That's how the get me every year too...that small chance. I've been the one to luck out before so I fully subscribe to the "you have to be in it to win it" idea
6 Years to draw this zone in Iowa. I'm luck to have a friend who granted me access on 2 different farms. First 45 min of daylight this stud came cruising through a ditch scent checking for does. Luckily he zigged instead of zagged and gave me a 25 yard shot.
I think when you spend enough time in Grizz country seeing a smallish Black Bear isn't a big deal. She couldn't figure me out and just went back to sauntering through the woods.