Stopping a charging bear.

Shoemaker writes super good articles for Rifle Magazine and the like, and definitely knows his stuff when it comes to hunting, guns and bears!

Had my first face to face encounter with a griz last season, at about 40 yards. Fortunately, didn't get western like this one!

Becoming a serious consideration when hunting here in the E. Kootenays lately...and not just up in the high country, but down low in the valley and close to civilization.
 
Bullet construction/luck and a cool head saved his bacon ,IMO if this event was repeated 100X........... 99 X the people would be dead I don't like a 9mm and never will except in maybe in a SMG. Seen a 147gr HP fail to open on a crippled WT deer that had to be put down.The nose plugged up with hair and it tumbled.Found the bullet hardly marked up in the road.Before the flames ......I was assisting a police officer at the time so no laws broken. The Russians used to wake up semi hibernating European brown bears with a PPSH and the 71rd drum 7.62x25 FA......before Gore-Tex this is how you got good air flow through the material......Harold
 
Heavy for caliber, hard cast and a man who has enough experience in hairy situations to get the job done. I laugh reading the comments section telling Phil what he did wrong. He may have done things that I wouldn't do (I find the 3953 doesn't fit in my hand worth a damn) but at the end of the day he's the one with the decades of experience.
 
Sounds to me like he did just fine...... Except for the shot in the foot thing.... But under that kind of heat, a lot can happen in the heat of the moment.......

9mm would make a ####ty hunting round, but large for caliber deep penetrating bullets in a semi that is handy to carry and can get off many rounds In short order at close range isn't such a terrible idea.....

We aren't all Mark Sullivan, and most of us don't want to be.......
 
BigUglyMan said:
Heavy for caliber, hard cast and a man who has enough experience in hairy situations to get the job done. I laugh reading the comments section telling Phil what he did wrong. He may have done things that I wouldn't do (I find the 3953 doesn't fit in my hand worth a damn) but at the end of the day he's the one with the decades of experience.
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I had to laugh when I saw he was using a 3953. It's what we refer to as the baby gun or the girl gun.
 
chuck nelson said:
Yes he is. But he has said not in this particular situation himself. Which begs the question. Why at all?
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Here's what he said on the fire.

"Police carry pepper spray for the same reason that hikers, backpackers and outdoorsmen carry it. It is often the best solution to diffuse a situation without having to kill the threat and the lethal means is in no way compromised."
 
chuck nelson said:
He has talked about it more than just on the fire.
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Wouldn't you?..... Hell, we hear all about each time one of your lefty options don't work out ..... If your fishing party got attacked and you fended off the bear, saved yourself and two others, and use a 9mm, I would expect a novel from you........ Complete within pic of you standing over the bear with a scowl on your face........
 
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