iirc their heart only beats like 12 times a minute, you can shoot them right in the pump and not even slow them down...
Posted on 11/04/2010 8:43:43 PM PDT by Saije
Even as Scott Oberlitner squeezed the trigger on the .375-caliber H&H Magnum rifle and sent a massive slug flying toward the hulk of the charging Afognak Island grizzly bear, he sensed it was too late. This was like trying to stop a freight train with a bullet. A miracle was going to be necessary to halt this madness, and there was no miracle. The bullet hit the bear, but did nothing to slow it. There was no time for a second shot. There was no time for anything except the fleeting thought that what was happening couldn't be happening. Then the bear was on Oberlitner.
"I thought it was all over," the 40-year-old Anchorage man says now, just over a week later.
About the last thing he remember doing in the split second before the bear hit him was trying to make a bullfighter pivot out of the way of the charge. It didn't work. The bear hit Oberlitner, and he went down.
From then on, he was powerless. His life was in the hands of fate.
"She bit me on the leg. She bit me on the butt," he said, "and then she threw me on a log and cracked some ribs."
(Excerpt) Read more at alaskadispatch.com ...
You tell ‘em how they shoulda done it....:)
“You tell ‘em how they shoulda done it....:)”
I have no idea! I think I’d opt for not being there at all.
I never thought about it but it makes sense. If you’re shooting at a bear to end an attack pray that you hit bone and not a vital organ. Weird. The energy from the bullet hitting bone will knock the bear on its ass whereas a fatal organ shot just pisses it off until it finally dies with you half way down its throat.
Wish it’d been a Mama Grizzly and Ma’am Boxer
iirc their heart only beats like 12 times a minute, you can shoot them right in the pump and not even slow them down...
Guy I know grew up in Alaska, his parents were both wildlife mgmt workers. They never left for work without TWO .44 magnum revolvers.
Was he deer hunting or bear hunting? Was the deer they shot bear bait? The .375 H&H is a way oversized for deer.
Interesting juxtaposition: The story with a picture of Sarah’s “Mama Grizzly” immediately below.
About 2.5times the energy of a .06.
Only a 12 guage, 3.5in mag with slugs would be a better choice.
I have heard, don't know if it's true, that there is no confirmed record of a grizzly bear charge successfully being stopped with any handgun, ever.
The guides in Alaska always recommend you file down the front sight of your revolver, so it doesn't hurt quite so much when the grizz shoves it up your a$$.
“Bears sometimes decide they want the deer a hunter has killed and take it away.
Fifty-three-year-old Ned Rasmussen of Anchorage is believed to have died in a confrontation with a bear that wanted a deer he’d shot in 1999 on one of the smaller of about a dozen islands in the archipelago”
The bear can have it. Heck, I’ll shoot a dozen more for Mr. Bear if he wants.
Grin, I'm thinking standoff weapons, like BVR standoff.
Or maybe an airstrike while I have a beer in the bar, then I'll go out and pack in the meat in the back of a pickup.
Tough being at the top of the food chain when the local fauna doesn't agree...
“She bit me on the leg. She bit me on the butt,” he said, “and then she threw me on a log and cracked some ribs.”
typical date of odumbi and michelle.
I'm not so sure I agree.
It is all about displacing energy in the bear. If the bullet passes through the bear much of that energy is lost.
That bear could SLAP your head off.
Go here and click on the dropdown for "Bear Encounter."
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