Posted on 11/26/2022 4:31:43 AM PST by marktwain
What a stupid line to include in this article.
How often do peace officers encounter bear dens?
How often do peace officers have a bear suddenly appear 10 feet away, then charge them at full speed?
Accuracy on a fast moving target ain't easy, and reloading time almost non-existent.
Even time to draw back-up gun....
Or, you could stalk to within 60 yards (about max effective hunting range for a modern bow), and fire at a bear which was not aware of your presence.
The bear would likely snap at the arrow, but not know where it came from.
If lung-shot (the preferred arrow shot) in about 4-10 minutes, the bear would be dead, depending on exact placement.
If the heart is hit (a more difficult shot), death would likely be less than two minutes.
You just have to stay out of the way of the bear for the intervening interval...
see all that snow in the xray? yeah...
A person doesn’t know how unpleasant recoil from a handgun can truly is until one shoots an eleven ounce Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum 360PD with Super Vel ammunition, the recoil is vicious.
A friend of mine went hunting Black bear with a bow. He never went again and wouldn’t even talk about it. I don’t think it went well.
(I've never figured out how they hold their pee in the cold, since scent suppression is such a key factor?)
One has to go to the link to get the full story about his encounter with the bear. The bear was never found
Selling semi automatic weapons is just crazy.
Joe Bien
Not quite. The FBI never issued "full house" 10mm loads, so there were never any girlie-girl or weak-kneed Nancy-boy agents complaining it was too much gun. They dialed it back to a 180gr bullet @950 fps while still in the evaluation phase because they then were fixated on 12-18" of penetration (on account of the 1986 Miami shoot-out). Only the "FBI Lite" loads were ever issued to rank-and-file agents.
The FBI's own report on the process is here (pdf).
And the FBI didn't create the .40S&W, S&W did. S&W recognized that the FBI Lite loads left a lot of empty space in the cartridge casing so they could shorten the case by 3.6mm and then the shorter round could be fired from a pistol with a smaller grip.
The grip on the .40 S&W Glock 23 is exactly the same girth as the grips on the 9mm Glock 17 & 19. And all are noticeably smaller than the grips on either the Glock 20 (10mm) or 21 (.45 ACP), including the G20SF and G21SF (SF=short frame). Which makes the .40S&W pistols more 'ergonomic.' than 10mms.
And the FBI's .40S&W load fired the same bullet as had the 10mm FBI Lite and was loaded to the same muzzle velocity, so in the FBI's loadings the 10mm and the .40S&W produced exactly the same recoil.
So he shut himself in the foot while on his back kicking the bear in the face and firing his gun. Crazy!
In the early 90s I bought a S&W 1006 in 10mm. The recoil was surprising, especially as it was a pretty heavy pistol. The best part about the original 10mm loading is that it made most common pistol round seem tame. An added bonus was that friends wouldn’t shoot it more than a couple of times, which saved me ammo.
Then the “FBI loads” came out and I lost interest. I still miss the 1006 but I sold it for more then I paid for it. The modern loadings are just as good as the original, but these days the 9mm does everything I need a pistol for. If I was going to be walking around anywhere where there was larger than man-size predators 10mm would be a fine choice, but given the option I would prefer a rifle. Even the lowly .223 is more powerful than a 10mm.
130gr seems a little odd
My reloading manuals start with 135 gr jacketed, and 150 gr or 155 gr for lead bullets
If this is correct, I’m curious as to why he chose a minimum weight rather than a maximum weight bullet.
The Dentist from the Carol Burnett Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUSM4EKcRI
Good thing he ignored Glock’s instructions not to shoot lead bullets.
And a bear that wishes to crunch crunch your cranium.
A friend has the 340PD (concealed hammer) and this is his pocket gun. It is so light!
He is an experienced “gun dude” and simply says the gun is no fun and hurts a lot to shoot, though it is very accurate due to the short barrel.
Remember that! Hysterical!
Anybody here amused going to the dentist...unless you have a wretched toothache?
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