Alaska Ping
Dats racist, killing poor black bear.
Black Bear Lives Matter! (Lotsa meet)
Pistol looks like a Ruger Hawk, double action.
Alaska Ping
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.
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!
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.