[MichaelP]

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

[marktwain]

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!