.308, 00 buck, or slug for grizzly?!

[mlehtovaara]

Now this is impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AVr7gNmrU&feature=related

 

[Winterkrieg]

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[J996]

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[Foxer]

How is this thread STILL going?! I swear this is the thread i came in on 10 years ago

Because a first round hit on a charging bear is not going to happen.

If you can't hit with your first shot, what makes you think you'll hit with the second? Or even get a second with the speed of a bear?

best to learn how to make the first one count if you ask me. You may not get another.

 

[J996]

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[Calum]

I was not going to post bear stories, however I actually have walked right into bears. Have you?

We live in BC who hasn't?

Hell I used to run into them while walking in my back yard in the middle of the night in Lake Cowichan.

 

[Mike_R23A]

I was not going to post bear stories, however I actually have walked right into bears. Have you?

I was in the woods south of the Lawfied Corridor in the CFB Gagetown training area, we were doing fighting withdrawals (ughh!) and I was part of a recce det going to scout out the next fighting position. It was the middle of the night and we were walking down a small trail when a good sized black bear walks out of the bush into the middle of our group right in front of me, maybe 3 meters away. At the time, in addition to my web gear and rifle I had a heavy-ass rucksack on my back full of defence-ops crap AND the C6 sustained fire kit slung across my chest.

Needless to say had that bear been hungry and decided to eat me I wouldn't have made it 2 feet before he'd be on me like a fat girl on a buffet...

 

[J996]

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[savagefan]

Dear Penthouse,...

 

[Captain Paul]

Dear Penthouse,...

...jackpot!

 

[J996]

Dear Penthouse,...

funny when its not you isent it? Wonder if you'd have fared better.
I dont need ridicule from armchair hunters. This is real easy, Bye,Bye, im done here.

 

[Calum]

Like I said, im certain that if I had brought a bolt rifle with me that day i would be dead.

If your not proficient in the use of a bolt rifle use under such stress, then perhaps yes. BTW congrats on the M1 Garand.

 

[savagefan]

Okay, to keep it light, here's a site that's having a poll on shooting Brown Bear with a slingshot. http://www.longrangehunting.com/for...hots-should-legalized-hunting-brown-bear.html

 

[Gatehouse]

A Garand (30-06) is certainly powerful enough to get the job done. Whether you need to empty the whole clip and piss your pants is up to the individual

 

[J996]

A Garand (30-06) is certainly powerful enough to get the job done. Whether you need to empty the whole clip and piss your pants is up to the individual

Haha!! I was just a young lad back then and just happy he did not get me. It was damn close.

 

[THX1139]

I wouldn't be adverse to using a 10ga.

 

[X-fan]

I'm looking forward to Daves visit in the spring. I have a huge supply of plastic pails!

Dave helped point me in the right direction with a big bore back in the early A/Reloading days.

Great guy!

Doesn't he live on the Sechelt peninsula or something?

 

[Gatehouse]

Dave helped point me in the right direction with a big bore back in the early A/Reloading days.

Great guy!

Doesn't he live on the Sechelt peninsula or something?

Yeah, he is on the Sunshine Coast. he's coming to visit in the Spring and bringing his Mbogo for fun.

 

[X-fan]

Sounds like way too much fun!

I lived there (Powell River) when they (literally) invented the term "Sunshine Coast"....Truly an epic advertising exaggeration!

Did Dave ever make it back to Africa?

 

[bat 44]

Im my opinion, I think Neo has given the best advice I have read to date on these forums on any given topic. I too have been in front of a charging grizzly and my 375 H&H was kissed and loved for the next three days but I still would have liked something like a 416 or bigger. 1200 lbs of PO'd grizzly is darn hard to stop but 275 grains of PO'd lead will do it.