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2019-10-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Grizzly Bear Attack in Montana Stopped with 9mm Pistols (graphic wounds depicted)
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 When you are what's on dinner for tonight....
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-09 02:01||   2019-10-09 02:01|| Front Page Top

#2 That's quite the puncture wound. Big enough for the surgeon to put his hand inside it.
Glad he survived.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-09 02:29||   2019-10-09 02:29|| Front Page Top

#3 
Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-09 02:46||   2019-10-09 02:46|| Front Page Top

#4 357 magnum is a better carry choice in the bear woods. And there are plenty of firearms chambered for it.

Posted by no mo uro 2019-10-09 07:41||   2019-10-09 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Having been chased out of the woods by a bear, I maintain the best bear gun is 40mm.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-10-09 09:48||   2019-10-09 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Mercutio, I like your style. I'd have to settle for a lesser caliber though, nowadays. A .460 S&W would do, if a .50 BMG wasn't handy (and they hardly ever are handy).
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-10-09 10:51||   2019-10-09 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Mercutio, I like your style. I'd have to settle for a lesser caliber though, nowadays. A .460 S&W would do, if a .50 BMG wasn't handy (and they hardly ever are handy). Big hole in that guy's leg.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-10-09 10:57||   2019-10-09 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Would a very load flash bang type device not also work?

Maybe why .44 is good. Even if it misses the bear will know you fired it.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-10-09 11:29||   2019-10-09 11:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Would a very load flash bang type device not also work?

It would. You would neither see or hear what the bear is doing to you.

I was watching a bear chow down on some elk when some damned fool approached it with one of them air horns. Didn't bother the bear at all until the fool got too close for good table manners. The bear, already full and gone back for thirds, jogged off.

A full, happy, content, Brown Bear. Not sure what pissed off/hungry/mama bear would have handled that meat stick. Maybe the guy grazed it, maybe bear finished his Dicapprio fantasy. Rear side of a Grizzly doesn't present much of a critical target other than balls and butt hole, and if you are like me hitting bullseyes at the range when that is the only activity I had planned that day is chore enough.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-09 15:21||   2019-10-09 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 10mm ballistics are pretty close to 41 magnum. I'm a fan. Deemed lethal enough for legally hunting black bear, but I wouldn't trust in grizzly country. Those guys got real lucky taking one out with a couple of puny 9mms.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-10-09 19:16||   2019-10-09 19:16|| Front Page Top

#11 See, this is why what you really need is a Howdah pistol in .600 Nitro Express.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-10-09 20:46||   2019-10-09 20:46|| Front Page Top

#12 and a new wrist after firing it
Posted by Frank G 2019-10-09 22:59||   2019-10-09 22:59|| Front Page Top

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