Posted on 10/13/2019 4:24:39 PM PDT by 2111USMC
On the evening of 18 September 2018, Anthony Reyna was happy and excited. He and his friend, Gary, were hunting moose on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson north of and sharing a boundary with Anchorage, Alaska. Tony had drawn a moose tag for a bow hunt. He was using a 60 lb PSE ThunderBolt compound bow. He has owned the bow since he was a teenager. Tony and Gary set up and started moose calling about 6 p.m. After 40 minutes, they heard a bull moving in. They saw his antlers at 30 yards. Suddenly, a second bull appeared at 15 yards! It was not as big, but Tony was hunting for meat.
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Jimmy is in the lead, about five feet ahead of Tony. He has time for a startled “F*ck Bear!” as he draws the Glock from the Serpa. He has trained and practiced. The draw is smooth and fast from a retention holster. As the bear bounds over the downed spruce, Jimmy double taps, two shots, one to the chest, one to the head. The bear crashes down, 10 feet from Jimmy, dead right there (DRT). It is over in a couple of seconds.
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Exactly why I carry the Glock 20, 10mm. I have 15 rounds of whoop-a_ _!
No sir. Not at all. Norway or Sweden issues the 10 to some of their soldiers for protection from polar bears
I love the model 20. It’s like having a 15 round 30-30 in your pocket.
Wonder if he was using slugs.
I’ve read that shotgun slugs will usually put them down.
I have. It took three rounds to kill it.
*snrk*
:)
I would’ve unloaded everything I had into that bear to kill it. Not wound it. I’ve gotta be honest. My knees would’ve probably been so wobbly I’d be lucky to hit her. We only have black bears here and some are big and some are brown. But a grizzly. Fuggeta bout it.
I used to live there. In the early 1990’s I diagnosed a young man with trichinosis from eating undercooked grizzly bear. He was hospitalized for 3 weeks, damn near died, lost 100 lbs of muscle, and had to give up his construction job for something less strenuous.
He was the only person I encountered in 26 years up there who ate grizzly bear.
Later that year three members of a family from Gambell Island in the Bering Straits was diagnosed with trichinosis from eating fermented walrus flipper. Yum!
Lol. Good one.
Wow! That’s a spooky video! That bear shrugged off those rounds. I hope that shooter was only using bird shot and not something heavier.
Glocks are awesome just because the trigger cycle is “there”. Double actions on like a SIG suck. Too long and too much slack. The cycle on a Glock is “FIRE” click “FIRE” click “FIRE”. ....
I carry a 1911 in 10mm when I’m hunting. Love that classic frame. Not to mention the accuracy.
10 mm Glocks are getting popular up here for bear defense. The idea is you can put more high velocity rounds on target than with a heavy revolver.
I'm not convinced. I'm in the market for a .44 magnum.
Look at Those Claws!
The article did mention this, which leads one to believe they did take the bear meat.
"They were already busy with the hard work of skinning the bear and dressing out the moose."
"The friends could not follow the second round wound channel, because the head, skin, and paws had to be turned in."
Yeah, I’d carry at least a 44 for bear. A 10mm would be a good backup
60 year Alaskan.........
I never go into bear country with anything less than a .44 backup to my long gun (.338 win mag or .375 H&H.)
Too many people aren’t this good!
It was a special lead flat nosed , gas checked round too which is specific for hunting 200 grain which made this kill. 10-mm in FMJ/JHP runs from 135 gr to 180 gr which likely would not have done it. I carry 10-mm sometimes so I am very familiar with its terminal ballistics.
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