According to Dale Lott, author of American Bison, the best advice to stave off a charging bison is to turn and run.
"I’ve always run away. Calling an animal’s bluff works only if it is bluffing. If it’s not, then you’re not even a moving target. I have little confidence in my ability to intimidate an animal that will attack a pack of wolves or a grizzly bear. The cow has always turned away from my rapidly retreating back and returned to her calf. I suspect I owe my unpunctured backside to the wolf’s habit of hunting in packs. If the mother chases one wolf very far, she leaves her calf exposed to the others. No profit, then, in running after a diminishing threat. Getting right back to the calf is a good rule of thumb, and mothers seem to follow it."
Lott, Dale F.. American Bison. Berkeley, US: University of California Press, 2002. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 26 April 2016.
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