My Two Cents on Revolvers and Gunfighting

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 4/8/2021 | P Pawela

[central_va]

Any Docs out there can tell me if a .45 round would penetrate his gut far enough to do damage?

[Mr Rogers]

“he is credited with killing...one grizzly bear with a Bowie knife”

Guess I’m skeptical!

[1Old Pro]

There are really plenty of blacks in America who made significant contributions

Tons of Black musicians

[LastDayz]

Denzel Washington would be perfect as the marshal in a feature film.

Ain’t that the truth. He’d do Bass Reeves some justice assuming Hollyweird didn’t totally screw up the story line.

[2111USMC]

We have a FReeper here that did just that. Can’t remember his name right now. Up in Alaska.

[gitmo]

I have a friend who twice has stomped attacking coyotes to death. The news did a story on the attacks. (Turned out positive for rabies)

[Hootowl]

There is a fair to middling movie about him, Hell on the Border, and several documentaries.

[Joe 6-pack]

The Freeper was Kanawa, and while I have nothing but the utmost respect for him and have no intention of taking anything away from him, it was a black bear, not a grizzly, and I think he would be the first to boast that he was armed not only with a knife, but also with his beloved pit bull.

Again, I'm not trying to diminish him or the story, but think he would want to minimize any embellishment in as much as what he did was pretty damn righteous in and of itself.

[Joe 6-pack]

Here’s the original story:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670661/posts

[MHGinTN]

Dittos ... a huge Denzel fan. The man is a huge presence on film. He is also a spot on thinker off stage. Denzel is the definition of, the epitome of ‘A Man in Full’.

[Fightin Whitey]

Any Docs out there can tell me if a .45 round would penetrate his gut far enough to do damage?

Oh, absolutely.

FWMD doctor of trichinology.

[2111USMC]

I was wrong on the location too. Canada, not Alaska.

[Joe 6-pack]

Memory has a way of muddling such things :-)

[Tijeras_Slim]

They make up for it with their exceptional wordsmithing skills.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Kanawa

[Mr Rogers]

The grizzlies I’ve seen would barely notice someone’s knife.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There’s a podcast called Great Books where the host interviews experts on the topic, often university professors. A little while ago they reviewed Washington’s “Up From Slavery” which was most fascinating.

[vis a vis]

Do you have a link for that? Thanks

[Yo-Yo]

Any Docs out there can tell me if a .45 round would penetrate his gut far enough to do damage?

Yup. I would recommend Ball for the penetration, instead of JHP.

https://brassfetcher.com/Handguns/45%20ACP/45%20ACP.html

[Crim]

There is already a movie about him...good movie too...