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Soldotna mans brush with bear too close for comfort [drops grizzly with Ruger .454 -- MUST-SEE]
Peninsula Clarion ^
| 8/7/09
| Joseph Robertia
Posted on 08/13/2009 8:31:40 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
Last Sunday a fourth brown bear for the year was killed in a defense of life and property (DLP) shooting, and there is no mistaking that it was the former, not the latter, that was on the line for the man who shot it.
(Excerpt) Read more at peninsulaclarion.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; banglist; bear; grizzly; ruger
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To: NewJerseyJoe
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:37:44 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(December 21, 2012; there's change for ya!)
To: Redcitizen
Sounds like he bearly escaped death.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:41:22 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
.454
When only the best will do.....
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:42:50 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Looks from the pics like he hit it in the lower jaw maybe? I don’t think the article said.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:45:42 PM PDT
by
hemogoblin
(Obama - The Potentate of Parasites)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Nice weapon for a large brown bear.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:46:24 PM PDT
by
vox_freedom
(America is being tested as never before in its history. God help us.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Stand next to someone shooting a .454 with all the hearing protection you want and you’ll still never forget it. Loud doesn’t even come close to the sound those things make.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:46:53 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Heh, try shooting one, they have a hell of a recoil too!
To: NewJerseyJoe
...drops grizzly with Ruger .454 It would be more impressive if he took on the grizzly with a Ruger 1022.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:48:49 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: Redcitizen
Thats a grizzly scene. More of a Brownie scene. Like a grizzly scene, only bigger and meaner. :-)
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:51:57 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: vox_freedom
The pics show a shorter barrel than that, perhaps the Alaskan?
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:54:33 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obama is in way over his ears.)
To: hemogoblin
That bear will make a pretty lousy rug;)
To: BradtotheBone
No doubt. Honestly, the report from the one being shot next to me at the range mildly freaked me out.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:57:40 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: Secret Agent Man; Ramius
Supporting the right to arm bears might not be a good idea. A onesided massacre was bruin but fortunately this guy had the right firearm for the job.
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:58:25 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(December 21, 2012; there's change for ya!)
To: vox_freedom
Yes, the article indicates it was an Alaskan, although the gun in the pic looks longer?
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posted on
08/13/2009 8:58:58 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obama is in way over his ears.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
I have a .454 Casull and that is all the handgun I can handle if at that.
To: Ramius
More of a Brownie scene. Like a grizzly scene, only bigger and meaner. :-) Brownie?
Was it a Kodiak Moment?
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posted on
08/13/2009 9:00:17 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 204 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
Maybe that bear heard through the bearline about tasty Timothy Treadwell.
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posted on
08/13/2009 9:01:23 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: NewJerseyJoe
Wow! Great story, (happy ending,) and great pics. That is one brave guy with one rockin’ Ruger. I definately would’ve been Boo-Boo lunch due to extreme and paralizing fear. And he probably would,ve eaten me whole—my still-holstered LCP and all. ;-)
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posted on
08/13/2009 9:01:31 PM PDT
by
Miss Behave
(AKA "Noogie." I dispense 'em. Hertz Doughnut?)
To: Redcitizen
Bears are already plenty well armed.
But just on general principles... a rifle is a far better sidearm in Alaska than a handgun. A big rifle.
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posted on
08/13/2009 9:03:09 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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