Aiming for the eye will miss the brain. Aiming between the eyes, if the nose is pointed at you, will miss the brain if the shot is half an inch too high.
Slightly above the eyes is the hardest and thickest part of the bear's skull. If the nose is pointing at you, a bullet from you, just slightly above the line of the eyes, will strike the skull at a very slight angle, and may be deflected.
The article cites examples where the shots missed the brain and did not kill the bear. However, in those examples the bear left, which would work well enough for me.
So, good sir, looking at a bear frontally, what should be the aimpoint?
Clearly centered. But mouth? Nose? Above the nose and below the eyes? Betweem the eyes? Somewhere else?
The pictures of the carved skull do not make this clear. On a fully clothed bear, where should I aim?
Please advise.
4 bore rifle at about 9 minutes. https://www.thereloadersnetwork.com/2024/03/29/4-bore-rifle-vs-grizzly-bear-%F0%9F%90%BB-the-biggest-rifle-ever/
When encountering a grizzly bear the properly prepared person will remember and follow the advice in this handy reference:
I wouldn’t go any way near a Bear unless I had a 12gage that carried slugs
big ones.
The polar bear illustration with the intersecting lines was helpful. Have you thought about using a large number of bear photographs in different profiles with a red aiming spot on the center of the brain or an outline of the brain position? To me, that would be helpful.
“The bear, Gilbert later realized, was simply being a bear—reacting to his presence as a threat to her cubs. She wasn’t interested in killing him for the malicious reasons humans attribute in their deep trait of anthropomorphizing other animals. She simply wanted to neutralize an unknown and unidentified threat and once it was no longer a threat, she left....
A team of highly trained medical technicians attached to a smoke-jumping crew had just deployed from a nearby fire base. And the helicopter pilot who picked him up had just done two combat tours in Vietnam war, landing under the most difficult conditions. Finally, a team of military surgeons experienced with battlefield trauma had just been assigned to the nearest medical facility.
Gilbert’s first surgery, the one that would save his life following a bear mauling in the remote Rockies, took 11 hours and exhausted the hospital’s suture supply....
We should all be grateful that Gilbert didn’t succumb to the kind of risk-averse apprehension regarding bears that might have gripped the rest of us, because he went on to almost half a century in the field, exhaustively studying bears in their habitat and in the most intimate proximity, at that. He sat with them, walked with them, observed them more closely than the benighted rest of us might get in a zoo with cages.”
https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/earthrise/53/
are dead because you brought pepper spray or were worried about the trophy.
