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Grizzly Guns (World Record shot with a .22)
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Posted on 02/15/2012 8:43:55 AM PST by marktwain
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I have read of at least two other cases where grizzly bears were killed with .22 rifles.
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posted on
02/15/2012 8:43:58 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
![](http://www.angelfire.com/on2/LandOwner/images/GRIZLEY2.JPG)
Photo of Bella Twin and her world record grizzly.
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posted on
02/15/2012 8:46:04 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Bears have very thick skulls. If you can get your bullet into the skull cavity (perhaps through the ear canal), it will just bounce around inside and turn the brain to soup.
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posted on
02/15/2012 8:47:49 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: marktwain
I'm glad it killed the bear, however, That had to be a very sick feeling to realize that your life depended on a single shot 22, long at that!
Mike
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posted on
02/15/2012 8:50:10 AM PST
by
MichaelP
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
To: marktwain
Fu22y Wu22y was a bear...
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posted on
02/15/2012 8:53:29 AM PST
by
I see my hands
(The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
To: MichaelP
Yes! If she had modern .22 LR, she would only have needed to shoot an addition 4 shots for “insurance”! /S
In one other case, a prospector had a single shot .22 and a box of shorts. His dog and a griz got into a tangle, and he kept plugging away at the bear’s head with his .22 and shorts.
The bear roared at him at some point, and he popped it through the roof of the mouth into the brain and killed it.
There was also at least one case where a .22 was used to kill and elephant. It was a shot to the big arteries out of the heart. The animal was quietly shot, then the hunters waited several minutes for it to bleed out and topple over. Not exactly a quick stopper!
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posted on
02/15/2012 8:56:57 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Amazing. I’d think that a .22 would just glance off their skull.
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:04:24 AM PST
by
wbill
To: marktwain
But the bear came much too close, and when the big boar was only a few yards away, Bella Twin shot him in the side of the head with a .22 Long cartridge. Proving the old adage that shot placement is more important than caliber.
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:07:24 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: marktwain
ALl I know is lots of people have been killed by .22s. Besides, when the SHTF I won’t be trying to protect myself from bears. Though I WILL be protecting myself from animals.
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:23:24 AM PST
by
Terry Mross
(Difference between a conservative / liberal-obvious. Difference between a rep and a dem? None)
To: I see my hands
“He was a hairy bear, He was a scary bear...”
-Bart Simpson
To: marktwain
I read a story about a guy in Africa in the early 1900s hunting Cape Buffalo. One charged him and he turned around to get his rifle from his trusty gun bearer only to find that the gun bearer was gone. The hunter climbed a nearby tree. The Buffalo waited for him to come down. The hunter had a 22 pistol with him with something like 60 rounds. He made a dummy out of his clothes and hung it down for the Buffalo to charge at. Every time the Buffalo went by, he put a 22 into it. Fired every last cartridge and the Buffalo stood there looking at him. The guy was in the tree all night. The Buffalo was gone next morning.
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:28:46 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: marktwain
Benjamin Martin: Aim small, miss small.
From the Movie: The Patriot (2000)
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:31:44 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: marktwain
Pure serendipity. That bear was done in by what used to be known in some circles as a “golden BB.”
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:31:44 AM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: marktwain
Rolf Voss of Surrey, British Columbia, had shot a caribou near Fort Nelson, in the north-central part of the province, and was carrying parts of the carcass back to his camp in wooded mountain country when a grizzly, perhaps smelling the meat, attacked him.
I frankly don’t know if this is true, but I have heard that the bears actually will come once they hear the shot. A dinner bell, if you will. I do know that once salmon fishing in Canada bears were known to follow fishing parties, and we were told that if you landed a salmon and you see a bear come towards you, you should politely STEP AWAY FROM THE FISH!
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:34:48 AM PST
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: blueunicorn6
Fired every last cartridge and the Buffalo stood there looking at him. I wonder how close the buff was. Even on a buff, the eyes are vulnerable to a .22.
To: marktwain
“...had a single shot .22 and a box of shorts...”
If all I had was a .22 up against a griz, I’d need a box of shorts too......
at least one change.....
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:37:24 AM PST
by
G Larry
(We are NOT obliged to carry the snake in our pocket and then dismiss the bites as natural behavior.)
To: marktwain
It took 60 rounds form a 22 to kill a black bear here in Colorado. I would not shoot a bear with a 22 because it might must make him mad and then what would I do?
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:41:16 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: Amberdawn
"the big brown bear came lolloping over the mountain"
- Grandpa Potts
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:42:09 AM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
To: marktwain
Bella went up close and fired all of the cartridges she had, seven or eight .22 Longs, into the bears head.
Well, any thoughts a home invader might have of getting away from her house safely are pretty much slim and none........
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:44:23 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
To: mountainlion
"...it might must make him mad and then what would I do?"
LOL! Coat the gun with heavy lube. Hand it to the bear. Grab your ankles.
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posted on
02/15/2012 9:47:59 AM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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