Don't do what this lucky idiot did. Let your dog near a bear family and try to run them off were crappy shoes and loaded with skeet shot. Guy is very lucky he is not dead. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj7Z5oMWuIU[/ame]
If You HAVE To Shoot A Bear, Where Would You Aim?
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Faulkner
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I was on a photo safari to take pictures of nesting bald eagles and trumpeter swans in Alaska on the Chikoot River when this grizzly stepped out onto the trail about 50 yards away.
There were 5 people in our group and we had just rounded a bend in the trail when we saw him step out. Immediately our guide guide whispered softly but urgently, "guys, lets all quietly back up around the bend and move back down the trail."
I was in the lead so as everyone turned back the way we came I stopped took two or three seconds to snap a few quick pictures. When I turned around I was standing there by myself. Fortunately, I was only a couple of steps away from the turn in the trail and as soon as I made the turn I made a hasty retreat to try and catch up with my group members, which wasn't easy because were covering some ground in a hurry.
I actually won a wildlife photo contest on the cruise ship with this picture.
There were 5 people in our group and we had just rounded a bend in the trail when we saw him step out. Immediately our guide guide whispered softly but urgently, "guys, lets all quietly back up around the bend and move back down the trail."
I was in the lead so as everyone turned back the way we came I stopped took two or three seconds to snap a few quick pictures. When I turned around I was standing there by myself. Fortunately, I was only a couple of steps away from the turn in the trail and as soon as I made the turn I made a hasty retreat to try and catch up with my group members, which wasn't easy because were covering some ground in a hurry.
I actually won a wildlife photo contest on the cruise ship with this picture.
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Took a trip to Alaska many years ago with my wife, sister and brother in law. While on a bear watching trip we spotted a sow with 2 cub's. Our guide told us what to do if the bear charged and said don't run, you can't outrun a bear. My brother in law replied to the guide that he wouldn't have to outrun the bear, only his wife.
Posting a pic of the guns that I keep handy in Grizz country. One is the M-1 Super 90 slug gun..nickle M-29-2 and the ol reliable M-57. The 2 bullets pictured are the ones I load for serious ammo in the 41 Mag a 250 gr +or - flat nose GC bullet. Shot through medium to large Alaskan Moose front to back. The Benelli is probably the fastest shooting semiauto shotgun I have ever used. I was a fair to middling shotgun shooter at one time. 9 slugs in about 5 seconds. The 29 has a trigger job I did many years ago and is an accurate double action shooter. I still don't want to shoot or confront any bear.
Faulkner, that is a great picture of a grizz. Feels a bit scary to be the closest to the critter doesn't it?
Faulkner, that is a great picture of a grizz. Feels a bit scary to be the closest to the critter doesn't it?
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The photo is fake.
The story that drives it is not. The nature photographer was Michio Hoshino, and he was pulled from his tent and killed by a Russian Brown bear in 1996.
About alleged Michio Hoshino’s last photograph of a bear. – Tvůrce vizu'aln'i komunikace
Why does the bear scene in "The Great Outdoors" come to mind?
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Would prefer this if ever bear hunting, lol.
Distract it with one of these:
9mmPatriot
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So then the bear says "You don't come here for the hunting do you?"
Why does the bear scene in "The Great Outdoors" come to mind?
This comes to mind for sure
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Getting the second shot might be hard to do if you missed.
carpriver
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I was told to shoot for the nose and mouth. if the animal is facing you. shoulder if it's broad side. Were I live there is only small black bear. I have had them visit my deck and garden. I kept a a loaded model 70 in the broom closet.
Faulkner...
My wife had me save your pic to the computer. We had one kinda like that one take our cooler away one evening...in BC. She shined a light in it's face at less than 10 ft and it was a grizz. New undie time!! She levitated into the truck
My wife had me save your pic to the computer. We had one kinda like that one take our cooler away one evening...in BC. She shined a light in it's face at less than 10 ft and it was a grizz. New undie time!! She levitated into the truck
OLDSTER
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In an adrenalin stoked panic situation of a charging bear, the last thing on my mind would be "now let's see; where should I aim ". Just shoot-shoot-shoot. Unless you're with a partner who you know you can out-run, then no reason to shoot.
What? No Gatling Gun?
Belt fed and crew served, please..............
Agreed, bears wouldn't be the only ones doing it the woods that day!
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Agreed, bears ain't the only ones doing it the woods!
Giant Bear Casually Walks Past Tourists in Alaska's Katmai National Park - YouTube
Yeah I don’t know how comfortable I would be with that. I think they are lucky the bear wasn’t hungry or feeling threatened.
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Back before the turn of the century (1974) I was invited to join a hunt the next morning, but staying to long at the bar made me late.Walking up a logging road I heard 3-4 shots. and when i located the shooter I saw he was shooting in my direction then up popped a black bear running full tilt from my right to left about 200 yds. out. My 2-3 shots were all behind him. then off to my left I heard a deer rifle firing in rapid succession When we got to that watcher turns out it was a sixteen yr old boy on his first hunt with his dad. His dad had put him on a large rock with instructions not to get off the rock until his dad got back.
That boy saw the bear running at him full tilt and started emptying his 30-30 lever gun at the bear. When we got to the rock the bear was about 2 ft. from the rock. the kids last bullet had hit the bear , breaking its neck !!!
That boy saw the bear running at him full tilt and started emptying his 30-30 lever gun at the bear. When we got to the rock the bear was about 2 ft. from the rock. the kids last bullet had hit the bear , breaking its neck !!!
