700-pound black bear bedevils Nev. town [shot with a .44 magnum bullet bounced off its skull]

upi ^ | Nov. 18, 2009

[JoeProBono]

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Homeowners and authorities in Incline Village, Nev., say they're on the lookout for a marauding, 700-pound black bear .

The bear, they say, has caused as much as $70,000 in damage so far this year, including havoc wrought inside a home it has broken into several times, the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal reported Wednesday.

"The deputies up there all say he's the biggest bear they've ever seen," Carl Lackey, a biologist and bear expert with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, told the newspaper. "He'll walk right by a trap. He won't go in them. He's really random in where he goes. He's made it real tough to catch up with him."

Lackey said the owner of the bear's favorite home shot it with a .44 magnum handgun this year when he confronted it on a staircase. The bullet struck the bruin in the head but only bounced off its skull, he said.

The bear was back two weeks later, once again breaking into garages, the newspaper said. Police estimate it has broken into 40 to 50 garages this year.

[JoeProBono]

[Doogle]

Police estimate it has broken into 40 to 50 garages this year.

...sounds like he should be on the LA version COPS

[VicVega]

Good story. Wonder what is in the house the bear keeps going back for?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Let him loose in Sen. Harry Reid’s house, when Harry is in it.

Bring the popcorn and cheer on the bear.

[familyop]

Many have perpetuated the myth that bears’ skulls are too thick for most rounds to penetrate. The truth of the matter is that most have fired at large oblique angles to prevent rounds from penetrating. Fired perpendicularly into a bear skull, at .22 LR would do it. I’ll try to dig up a graphic of a poster showing target areas on a bear.

[fanfan]

Ping.

[JoeProBono]

700-pound black bear

[Misterioso]

That .44 round must have glanced off of the bear’s skull. A direct hit would have stopped it, IMHO.

[sheikdetailfeather]

I live in central Florida and recently had a black bear visit my porch looking in the screen. I have seen him twice since and he is BIG! Here are the pics I took of his paw and claw marks on my screen!

[RichInOC]

Mongo!

[JoeProBono]

[decimon]

That’s a whole lotta rug.

[familyop]

Here ya go.

[JoeProBono]

[familyop]

Poster-sized version here.

http://huntinggetaway.com/CHLHuntingAssociatesPhotos/album/Misc/Hunting_Equipment_052707_107_JPG_orig.html

[Misterioso]

Hadn’t seen that shot. Beautiful.

[sheikdetailfeather]

LOL!!!!

[MrPiper]

Lackey said the owner of the bear's favorite home shot it with a .44 magnum handgun this year when he confronted it on a staircase.

Ya don't bring a knife to a gun fight!! 12 ga 465 gr slugs don't bounce, or 220gr 30/06,, etc.... I could go on.

[Deaf Smith]

Okay, I'll bite...why couldn't bear penetrate your screen door?

Do you have it hooked up to your electric fence charger?

[Daffynition]