Alaska bear attack: A shot too late

Alaska Dispatch ^ | 11/4/2010 | Craig Medred

[texmexis best]

There have been a number of bear attacks stopped with handguns.

Bear guides, according to my bear hunting friend, frequently carry .45-70 revolvers and they seem to work.

Although the 375 H&H is a great round I personally would feel a lot more confident with .45-70 or greater with heavy loads.

To show you how dangerous this can be, during one of his trips which was 3 weeks long, 5 hunters were killed by bears. Not for the faint of heart.

[kanawa]

Those grizzlies make my guy look like a teddy bear.

[Salamander]

Just get a bigger knife.....:)

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Wow, those were fascinating pictures and a wild story to boot. My blue jeans would be brown.

Thanks for that. That is just wild and the pictures tell the story. Very cool.

[hockea]

Here’s one incident:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315683/posts#comment

[hockea]

I lived in west AK for many years and only used this:

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[hockea]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hockea/Mvc-016l.jpg

In .458WM