Posted on 08/18/2016 5:05:44 AM PDT by marktwain
The 10mm is becoming increasingly popular as a wilderness defense gun in Alaska. Fully loaded it is as light, and a bit more powerful than a loaded, small frame .357 magnum.
The Glock 20 holds 15 rounds versus five or six for a .44 or .41 magnum revolver. In this case near Homer, Alaska, on the Kenai peninsula, it did the job in stopping a charging brown bear sow. It happened on 29 July, 2016, a Monday afternoon about 4 p.m. From homernews.com:
A Homer man shot and killed a charging sow brown bear at Humpy Creek last Friday. Kim Woodman, 57, shot the bear five times with a 10mm handgun before the bear fell about 6 feet from him. While backing away from the sow, Woodman fell and accidentally shot himself in the left foot.
(snip)Woodman had another defensive bear shooting 24 years ago, in 1992. In that case he was hunting moose. In 1992 he fired his rifle at close range when the bear was stalking him.
Blackwell said Woodman surprised a brown bear with two cubs while hiking about 4 p.m. July 29 off the trail along the southwest fork of Humpy Creek in Kachemak Bay State Park. The bears were probably feeding on pink salmon in the creek. Woodman filled out a defense of life and property report, and Park Ranger Jason Okuly and Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Jason Herreman went to the scene and found the dead sow bear. They reported the sow had two gunshot wounds, one below the right eye and one in the chest.
It was a brown bear - if was a black bear - you would never hear the end of it from #BBM (black bears matter)
Hey, bear....what’s bruin?
ping
None of the above. The bear was online at Amazon.com with the hunter's stolen MasterCard credit card, and when the hunter saw what was going on, he disconnected the bear's internet.
He stopped the bear from charging.
Hopefully there is the proper paperwork to take them home and grill them!
Uhhhhh...
large bore handguns?
Sounds right to me.
Because, as we all know, brown-bear scat can be identified by small-bells and the odor of pepper-spray.
:-)
My dad was a Right-of-Way agent and one of his agents came back and told him that when he was surveying a field, a bull charged him.
My dad replied: “How much?”
No. No. No. You're supposed to shoot your hiking buddy in the foot...
All you need to defeat a bear is a pair of running shoes and a slow buddy!
Glock mod 20 ftw. Good for packs of two legged urban varmints as well. Still have several mags full of the original Black Talon just for that purpose.
You have won the COVETED post of the thread.
That’d just piss off the bear.
Funniest ad recently was the two Masai tribesmen accosted by a lion. One slowly reaches into his kitbag & dons his Adidas shoes. The other asks,
“Do you think you can outrun the lion in those?”
“No. Only you.”
;^)
But, but, but ... I’m sure that all the bear needed was a little more love and respect!
In the autumn of 1948, one of my aunts who had served as a Navy nurse during WWII had moved on to her civilian nursing career and was working in the hospital in my home town.
A big burly coal miner came into the ER, having accidentaly shot himself in the foot while hunting.
As the story goes, he was a somewhat difficult patient, but nevertheless they began dating and a year or two later were married and remained so until his death in 2000.
Til the very end, he held that shooting himself in the foot was one of the best things that ever happened to him :)
Looks like the 10 mm has more penetrating power for bears. The general gist I got from the thread is that you go for 10mm for the woods and .45 for human targets. Two interesting takeaways for me:
1. There is a concern about over-penetration with 10mm.
2. Apparently 10mm is abnormally loud, that was the consensus, though one poster said it was no different than other rounds.
If I was charging a brown bear I'd stop a lot further away than 6 feet no matter what hand-cannon I had.
</snark>
My observations on the 10mm and the Glock mod 20:
In that pistol, it is very controllable and very accurate. It is ideal for the sort of urban social situations that have become all too common, and over penetration is a virtue, not a vice in such situations. Not louder than most effective one-shot-per-customer pistol/ammo combos. IMHO.
Interestingly, my biggest challenge with 10mm is something I didn’t even mention: Availability and cost of ammo.
And I have no intention of loading my own.
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