[marktwain]

I have read of at least two other cases where grizzly bears were killed with .22 rifles.

[marktwain]

Photo of Bella Twin and her world record grizzly.

[ArrogantBustard]

Bears have very thick skulls. If you can get your bullet into the skull cavity (perhaps through the ear canal), it will just bounce around inside and turn the brain to soup.

[MichaelP]

I'm glad it killed the bear, however, That had to be a very sick feeling to realize that your life depended on a single shot 22, long at that!

Mike

[I see my hands]

Fu22y Wu22y was a bear...

[wbill]

Amazing. I’d think that a .22 would just glance off their skull.

[Yo-Yo]

But the bear came much too close, and when the big boar was only a few yards away, Bella Twin shot him in the side of the head with a .22 Long cartridge.

Proving the old adage that shot placement is more important than caliber.

[Terry Mross]

ALl I know is lots of people have been killed by .22s. Besides, when the SHTF I won’t be trying to protect myself from bears. Though I WILL be protecting myself from animals.

[blueunicorn6]

I read a story about a guy in Africa in the early 1900s hunting Cape Buffalo. One charged him and he turned around to get his rifle from his trusty gun bearer only to find that the gun bearer was gone. The hunter climbed a nearby tree. The Buffalo waited for him to come down. The hunter had a 22 pistol with him with something like 60 rounds. He made a dummy out of his clothes and hung it down for the Buffalo to charge at. Every time the Buffalo went by, he put a 22 into it. Fired every last cartridge and the Buffalo stood there looking at him. The guy was in the tree all night. The Buffalo was gone next morning.

[Kartographer]

Benjamin Martin: Aim small, miss small.

From the Movie: The Patriot (2000)

[PowderMonkey]

Pure serendipity. That bear was done in by what used to be known in some circles as a “golden BB.”

[freedomlover]

Rolf Voss of Surrey, British Columbia, had shot a caribou near Fort Nelson, in the north-central part of the province, and was carrying parts of the carcass back to his camp in wooded mountain country when a grizzly, perhaps smelling the meat, attacked him.

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I frankly don’t know if this is true, but I have heard that the bears actually will come once they hear the shot. A dinner bell, if you will. I do know that once salmon fishing in Canada bears were known to follow fishing parties, and we were told that if you landed a salmon and you see a bear come towards you, you should politely STEP AWAY FROM THE FISH!

[mountainlion]

It took 60 rounds form a 22 to kill a black bear here in Colorado. I would not shoot a bear with a 22 because it might must make him mad and then what would I do?

[Hot Tabasco]

Bella went up close and fired all of the cartridges she had, seven or eight .22 Longs, into the bear’s head.

Well, any thoughts a home invader might have of getting away from her house safely are pretty much slim and none........

[tumblindice]

1. I don’t have to outrun him—I just have to outrun you.

2. It’s not very sporting: This is why we should arm bears.