Alaska Ping
Posted on 01/24/2018 5:53:26 AM PST by marktwain
Dats racist, killing poor black bear.
Black Bear Lives Matter! (Lotsa meet)
Pistol looks like a Ruger Hawk, double action.
Red Hawk
It was a grizzly.
RH w/7.5in barrel. Got one. its a lot of pistol.
Alaska Ping
From the account The Longest Minute:
“Unable to remove the pistol from the holster, I tried to shoot through it, but the strap held the hammer down on the single action revolver.”
The writer does not seem like much of a pistol person. Maybe he got it wrong.
“RH w/7.5in barrel. Got one. its a lot of pistol.”
Got one like it also and a Ruger Alaskan in 44 Mag great “LITTLE” gun.
For most people, you have to be close to use a handgun effectively. Fortunately (or unfortunately) when a bear charges, range is not a problem.
Caliber and bullet capable of penetration plus shot placement.
I got that from reading Karamojo Bell.
Moral: Keep your handgun close, and make sure your partner has a handgun on him too.
I’m reminded of the book THE INDIAN WAR OF 1864 by Capt Eugene Ware in which he finds a bull bison and shoots it with his .44 Colt pistols. All the head shots bounced off. He used over thirty rounds of black powder paper cartridges to finally bring it down.
Bison have big heads. Their brain is only a small volume in it, and is protected by a lot of heavy bone.
I kinda doubt the “bounced off” report, but who knows the quality of powder he was using?
Looks kinda tiny in that picture.
A Real Goldilocks story.
This is why I always have my Glock 10mm with me in the great outdoors. 15 rounds in case I’m nervous!
S&W 5 inch 460. When fired, I know it’s accelerating my receding hairline. :-)
We knew that .44 Magnum was that effective back in 1971, unless Hollywood lied to us:
“Being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”
- Harry Callahan
There’s also a lesson about not taking your gun off in the woods (not meant as a criticism, just a lesson learned, since I might have thought the same way in the excitement of dealing with success and the logistics of hauling several hundred pounds of meat). I can understand not wanting to get blood on a nice firearm, but that wasn’t a moose gun that they could set aside. I’m sure they were carrying the revolver for one reason, and that reason became stronger once they had their moose, not weaker.
That certainly could be a Super Blackhawk, hard to tell with his hand over it.
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