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My dad determined that the round had smashed up a rib going in the right side, pierced the right lung, burst one of Griz’ heart chambers, pierced the other lung, and cracked a rib on the other side before coming to a stop. Pretty sure his ammo stock at the time was milsurp (point being, FMJ cuz pops was too cheap for soft point), which agrees with the relatively linear path found in the amateur autopsy that followed. Griz got hauled down to the barn, skinned and butchered (clearest memory of the whole episode: bbq’d bear ribs, YUM). In the time it took for my dad to work the bolt and put his eye back to the scope, the bear had closed the distance to about 5 yards, at which point it dropped its face into the dirt and came to a stop. Bear saw us, started his charge, dad took the shot. Turns out ol griz was down at the bottom of the driveway, about 90 yards away. A few chickens had gone missing over as many days, I was outside after dusk in the front driveway when my dad came sprinting down the steps with his Argentinian Mauser rebarrelled in. The first one I remember was at 3 years old. Griz with a little adrenaline in them simply defy the laws of nature as I thought I understood them. 45, and while seven shots were fired, only one shot hit the bear. I wanted to scare him off.”Ī comment by Landess’ son on ADN.com gives us some more details: The pistol was a Hi-Point. “I’m not a hunter I’m a fisherman,” he said. He said this was the first big game he’d ever killed. He said he didn’t have any food around his house that could have attracted the bear but did have an empty cooler on his porch that the bear tossed around along with some chairs. Landess said while he has seen bears around his property, living in close proximity to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, he had never experienced one this aggressive. He said the bear “got crazy” and ran about 50 feet before it collapsed and died. 45 pistol, stepped out onto his upper deck, took aim and fired seven rounds toward the bear’s vitals. “I couldn’t believe that it came back,” he said. He had scared off the animal with some warning shots just three hours before. 45 against a brown bear that was trying to get into his house on July 7th of this year.


In this case, a homeowner in Alaska used a. In a defensive situation, you have to use what is available. Handguns may not be ideal as defensive weapons for bears, but they can be effective. Numerous examples have shown that this is a false notion. Many people claim that handguns are useless for protection against bears.
