[Lowell1775]

Don’t know now if it is true or not....but remember hearing more than once...that Eskimos hunted polar bears with 22’s in the old days before Uncle Sam bought them all 300 Win Mags by waiting until the bear would rear up and open it’s mouth, and being close enough to kiss, the Eskimo warrior would pop the bruin in the roof of the mouth and go home to momma with a new white parka and bear steak for dinner.

[immadashell]

...that Eskimos hunted polar bears with 22’s in the old days before Uncle Sam bought them all 300 Win Mags by waiting until the bear would rear up and open it’s mouth, and being close enough to kiss, the Eskimo warrior would pop the bruin in the roof of the mouth and go home to momma with a new white parka and bear steak for dinner.

Didn't even have to repair the bullet hole in his brand new white bearskin rug.

[PUGACHEV]

In White Dawn (1974), a film about three Yankee wailers castaway in the Arctic, there is a scene where an old Eskimo shaman confronts a polar bear. As the man draws near, the bear rises up to six or seven feet on its hind legs and bellows as it extends its front paws. Unrattled, the shaman takes a fragile looking bone tipped spear and carefully inserts it into the bear's chest, avoiding the rib cage is such a way as to sever the aorta cleanly, causing the bear to simply collapse. Placement is everything.