Elk or black bear with 223 softpoint?

Ok, here is another example of what a .22 can do in the right hands.
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Miles Teg said:
Ok, here is another example of what a .22 can do in the right hands.
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I believe she shot it while it was trying to break in to her trailer, and it stuck it's head in the window.

Point blank in the eyeball is not a practical or safe hunting method IMHO. :rolleyes:

I also know a butcher that drops cows in his shop with an old cooey .22 LR.

A couple of shots in the brain pan, then the hoist, knife to the throat, and it's game over.
But when he hunts with a rifle he uses a 7mm.
 
The womans name is Bella Twinn. She shot the bear on her trapline south east of Kinuso in the Swan Hills. She saw the bear walking towards her on a cutline moved off to the side then shot it behind the ear with a 22 short (yes a rimfire)as it walked by her. It went down with one shot but when she realized how big it was she got scared and pumped a bunch more into it. At one time the bear was #9 in the world. She trapped until she was well into her 70's and died not that long ago. She was a tough old girl. I've heard that the hide was lost when the old hotel in Canyon Creek burned but I've also heard that the hide is in a museum in the area. I remember my dad telling me about her shooting it when I was a Kid.
 
That is a very good story bedrock, I appreciate you sharing it. I certainly would hope though that it doens't encourage anyone to go out and try something as silly as that. Think about the consequences to self and realize that shooting a bear or an elk with a .223 is not only stupid, irresponsible and also not ethical. I don't care whether it is legal or not. After all, this website often discusses some of the stupid laws which we have to contend with...right? I'm done.
 
bedrock said:
The womans name is Bella Twinn. She shot the bear on her trapline south east of Kinuso in the Swan Hills. She saw the bear walking towards her on a cutline moved off to the side then shot it behind the ear with a 22 short (yes a rimfire)as it walked by her. It went down with one shot but when she realized how big it was she got scared and pumped a bunch more into it. At one time the bear was #9 in the world. She trapped until she was well into her 70's and died not that long ago. She was a tough old girl. I've heard that the hide was lost when the old hotel in Canyon Creek burned but I've also heard that the hide is in a museum in the area. I remember my dad telling me about her shooting it when I was a Kid.
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This was from the HuntingBC.ca forum. I'd post the link but it appears to be dead now.

MADTRAPPER02-02-2004, 06:41 PM
When it comes to hunting cartridges, there’s no magic cartridge.

Bella Twin at age 63 and her friend D. Auger were hunting grouse and picking berries, near Lesser Slave Lake in Northern Alberta. The gun she owned and carried was a single-shot bolt-action .22 caliber rimfire rifle. They were walking a cutline that had been made for oil exploration when they ran into a ex-large grizzly following the same survey line towards them. If they ran,the grizzly would notice them and give chase, so they quietly sat down in a brush pile and hoped the grizzly would pass them by without any trouble. But the grizzly came to close and Bella Twin shot the grizzly in the side of the head with a .22 Long cartridge. The big grizzly dropped, kicked and then lay still. Bella taking no chances went up to it and fired the 7 cartridges that she had left into the grizzly's head. This took place in 1953, was the world-record grizzly for several years. Which goes to show you that anything is possible in an emergency. Twin’s grizzly stands as the longest-reigning provincial big-game record in Alberta.

The Boone and Crockett score for her bear was 26 5/16.


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MADTRAPPER02-02-2004, 08:51 PM
The rifle she used to kill the grizzly was a Cooey Model 39 single-shot .22 cal..My Dad bought me one back in 1956, but I later sold it. The one below is one I picked up at a gunshow only because I had one when I was kid.

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Ex-Marine Kills Bear With Log at Low Gap Camp Grounds in Georgia

The Associated Press

HELEN, Ga.

A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear.

But the encounter last weekend proved fatal for the bear.

The bear had taken the Everharts' cooler and was heading back to the woods when 6-year-old Logan hurled a shovel at it.

Fearing what might happen next, the Norcross father and ex-Marine grabbed the closest thing he could find a log.

"(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Chris Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."

The man was given a ticket for failing to secure his camp site, said Ken Riddleberger, a region supervisor for game management with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Riddleberger said some U.S. Forest Service agents were at the camp issuing a citation in an unrelated case. They got to the scene in a few minutes and verified what happened, he said.

Riddleberger said fines are usually set by counties, but Everhart's will be set by the federal government since the incident happened on federal property.

"We've not had an attack in Georgia," he said. "The key thing to learn from this is if there's a bear around, do not have your garbage or food available. If we manage our food, we won't have bears around."

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Look, some guy killed a bear with a log. Just because it happened does not make it either wise or ethical to go out bear hunting using logs.
 
effinggoof said:
Look, some guy killed a bear with a log. Just because it happened does not make it either wise or ethical to go out bear hunting using logs.
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Personally I'd would like to see a guy use a log rather than a 223.
 
Republic - I live 100 miles or so north up by Peace River. The bear was shot just south of the road between High Prairie and Slave Lake and just east of the road to Swan Hills. I see one of her nephews all the time and he told me where it was shot. My dad told me about it around 1960. I'm not sure how many grizzly are left in that area but at one time there certainly were lots.
 
primus1 said:
These threads always bring out the sanctimonious crowd whining about ethics.
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i hear you brother! Lets bring back the log! I'm talking Birch here not pine in case any of you pantywaists want to bring in the old anti American softwood argument.
 
Lazy Ike said:
i hear you brother! Lets bring back the log! I'm talking Birch here not pine in case any of you pantywaists want to bring in the old anti American softwood argument.
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You guy's make me sick. We had this heavy and slow argument versus light and fast. Keep up would ya? You need a pressure treated 2x4, cut to about 4 and a half feet for optimum velocity. The pressure treating is equivilant to stainless and synthetic. You can get optimum velocity out of the 4 and a half feet. Too short, and you will lose kenetic energy downrange. Too long, and you will have too much paraseticair resistance. And you will have more range with the 2x4 over a log. Do I have to explain it again?
 
Lazy Ike said:
in case any of you pantywaists want to bring in the old anti American softwood argument.
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Unless you live in a town that has been affected by the anti Canadian softwood BS that the USA is dishing out.
Then you really don't know what your talking about. :rolleyes:

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