You Have a Grizzly 20 Yards Out...

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I don't know anything about shooting bears, other than what I have learned on this Forum. Seems like using the 500 MGN at 20yds, at the start of an attack, I would want to place the first round in a shoulder. Make her a three lagged bear. Repeat on the other side. Should slow her down some. Up close, a round in the mouth. Looks like a large target. Or, a heart shot, since she would be on her hind legs. The mouth would be about 12 feet in the sky! Get out of the way if she falls forward! Change underwear.

73,
Rick
 
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Speaking from experience, my friend opened our shell camper lid, only to have a grizzly stick its head inside. As it tried to get inside, my friend dropped the door on him. He was within inches of my outstretched legs still in my sleeping bag. The first and only thing I can recall was my curiosity as to who was screaming like a little girl.
 
steelslaver said:
Yet, you live and sleep in Cleveland and there were 346 homicides in NE Ohio last year. Interesting choice in the face of the fact that Grizzlies killed a total of 8 people in Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 in the last 3 years

Do you sleep where there are trees? Reason I ask is because in the entire history of Yellowstone park, where there is by far the greatest incidence of human/ grizzly interaction, exactly 1 more person has died from a grizzly attacks than from falling trees.

I often camp and hunt where there are grizzlies. Not really very high on my worry list. I do check the trees near my camp however.
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Whoa whoa whoa. Your making to much sense……. It's kinda hard for me to believe sometimes how many recoil sensitive people frequent a handgun Forum. I don't like heights and I hate flying. You don't see me on an aviation site.
 
I would not go into bear territory carrying a firearm stoked with ammo I had not tested at the range and I certainly would not want to rely upon one that I had never fired and had possibly not been fired since it left the factory. So for me, this question is moot.
 
Mossie 500 Mariner 12 gauge with 'Black Magic' 3 inch 12 slugs.

See I have just that gun, not some fancy .500. And in Alaska the Game Wardens, who deal with bears every day, use that ammo out of Remington 870 shotguns.

Of course I also have my 3 inch S&W 629-1 but... I'd pick the shottie cause it is so effective (and cheep.)
 
Well I am glad I have guns as the backwash from a slight breeze would make one miserable and unable to function if I set of bear spray in a tent. She brought the 500, she can shoot it, I'll put 4 in the bear from my untried, untested Python and one in each of the cubs if needed. I will only do that after yelling at all of them to get out of my camp. Also why are you camping where 20 yards is the perimeter of your camp?

I am old and pee often during the night. When I heard the wind blow the tree over I got up, moved the food and both of us alternated checking the area until the wind died down,
 
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You wake up, peep out your tent flap on a cold early morning only to see a grizzly standing about 20 yards away at the edge of your camp clearing. She hasn't noticed your smiling face yet, because she's watching her cubs rummage through your food stocks that fell from the tree during the night.

WHICH do you grab?
One is stoked with Underwood .357 magnum 180gr. "Black Cherry" hardcast rated for 1,400fps/724fpe (1KJ)

The other is carrying Underwood .500 magnum 440gr. "Black Cherry" hardcast rated to 1,620fps/2,580fpe (3.5KJ) - really more like 1,450fps/2055fpe (2.8KJ) from the 4 inch tube.

You've shot the Python quite a lot, and killed several reams of paper targets over the years, but never with such heavy, hot loads.

The one that looks like it's from a Roger Rabbit movie, the M500 is your girlfriend's gun, but she's never shot it either - she just bought it to Pi$$ you off for always spending money on guns, guns, and more guns!

Now the bear looks directly into your eyes...and she ain't smiling!
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Hahaha, the 5 Hundy for sure! Once the She-Bear see's your smiling pale face and her cubs are involved... You Are Done "if" you haven't seriously persuaded her to leave camp. With her wearing a .500 pill in her pelt... yeah, that should make her want to buy some time and weigh her options while you haul *** outta there!
 
steelslaver said:
Yet, you live and sleep in Cleveland and there were 346 homicides in NE Ohio last year. Interesting choice in the face of the fact that Grizzlies killed a total of 8 people in Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 in the last 3 years

Do you sleep where there are trees? Reason I ask is because in the entire history of Yellowstone park, where there is by far the greatest incidence of human/ grizzly interaction, exactly 1 more person has died from a grizzly attacks than from falling trees.

I often camp and hunt where there are grizzlies. Not really very high on my worry list. I do check the trees near my camp however.
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Hahahaha! Truth... Some "Animals" are better tempered than "Others"...

-Hams
 
DeafSmith said:
Mossie 500 Mariner 12 gauge with 'Black Magic' 3 inch 12 slugs.

See I have just that gun, not some fancy .500. And in Alaska the Game Wardens, who deal with bears every day, use that ammo out of Remington 870 shotguns.

Of course I also have my 3 inch S&W 629-1 but... I'd pick the shottie cause it is so effective (and cheep.)
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I Regularly "Woods-Carry" my M629-5 "Mountain Back Packer" full under-lug and 3" barreled .44Magnum & with 305gr Underwood's Hard Cast "Keith's" it's a hell of a thumper.

When practicing on my AR-500 Steel-Silhouette plate even at 35 yards it will crater it's super hard surface.

So we practice at 55 yards plus! My Ruger m44 Semi-Auto Carbine with 18.5" barrel hits so hard the same plate anything closer than 100 yards and same ammo crater's the surface as it's pushing 1,700fps at that range even.

I love the fact that the same ammo works well in both the 3" Smith Revo and the 18.5" semi-auto (4+1Ruger Carbine), as its even much more lethal than the already aforementioned and ample load is in the Revolver alone...

Should I ever make a Denali trip or similar the Smith/Ruger Combo would be my on body, slung and holstered combo of choice for fishing/hiking etc...

My Nickel Plated 12 Gauge Ithaca Police Special 7+1 "Slamfire-Equipped" stoked with Winchester's rifled slugs would be In-Camp as well...

I'm very comfortable with all 3 platforms and thus is a must before playing the the Big-Bad-Outdoors where little to no help is many miles away.
 
I grew up in a logging camp in SE Alaska (Chichagof Island), and I've seen Alaskan brown bears. We saw them at the garbage dump all the time, and every once in a while my dad and I would chase one down the road in his pickup. Once, when I was 14, I saw fresh tracks (huge!) in the snow where I was hunting, and they were supposed to be hibernating at the time. I decided I'd kill it if I saw it first ( I had an 1891 Argentine Mauser in 7.65x53mm), but I didn't see him.

I would NOT be camping in big bear country without a 12 ga. slug gun or something bigger.
 
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steelslaver said:
Yet, you live and sleep in Cleveland and there were 346 homicides in NE Ohio last year. Interesting choice in the face of the fact that Grizzlies killed a total of 8 people in Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 in the last 3 years

Do you sleep where there are trees? Reason I ask is because in the entire history of Yellowstone park, where there is by far the greatest incidence of human/ grizzly interaction, exactly 1 more person has died from a grizzly attacks than from falling trees.

I often camp and hunt where there are grizzlies. Not really very high on my worry list. I do check the trees near my camp however.
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My profile says Metro Cleveland.. That means SUBURBS..
 
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