Posted on 03/21/2022 6:31:59 AM PDT by marktwain
These eleven events of pistols fired in defense against bears, in combination with other items, have been found since the last update in June of 2021.
The increasing number of incidents had made checking all links difficult and awkward.
With this article, and in the future, updates will consist of the newly revealed incidents and any change in statistics. In this article eleven newly revealed cases of combination defenses are added for completeness. In our research of the effectiveness of pistol fired in defense against bears, we include all documented incidents, so readers may evaluate them themselves.
Because these incidents involve more than simply pistols fired in defense against bears, these combination defenses are not included in the statistics of the effectiveness of pistols . There is much valuable information in these accounts. The reader is encouraged to read the incident for themselves, and to extract whatever lessons they deem valuable.
The incidents are listed below in chronological order, earliest to most recent.
The story was written 17 years after the event, by a person who was not there, “Handlogger” Jackson. Jackson was a friend of the Johnstones. He had married their sister, Ruth, in 1927. This incident about Jack Johnstone was not found in the original “Old Groaner” article written in 1936. In Bear Tales for the Ages, the 1953 article was re-written again. It is included in the interest of completeness. It does not change the statistics.
Handlogger Jackson writes that Jack Johnstone was armed with a cut-down 45-70 and a Luger pistol. From the book:
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Never challenge a bear to a gunfight..................
Well I shot bears they have all lost.
Handguns have proven over and over to be very effective for defense against bears.
It seems to me that the theme of the stories is if you have a charging bear, shoot it with everything you’ve got until the bear is down.
In all three cases, the defenders either did not want to kill the bear, or they failed to act with clarity.
The failure to act with clarity was when several people were in a group attacked by a polar bear. They fired a .22 pistol in defense.
Aaron Rodgers uses a shotgun against the Bears...
Obviously shot placement was bad in this instance. Had the shooter shot his partners in the knee and simply run, he would have been fine.
I meant to say "three documented cases where the defense failed, when a handgun was fired in defense against a bear. Over 100 cases where a handgun was used in defense against a bear.
I have some huge black bears in my area, some easily between 350-450lbs. When I am out and about my property I carried a .357 magnum with hunting rounds for decades. In the last seven or eight years I picked up a Virginian Dragoon in .44 magnum and have been carrying it with hunting rounds and feel quite safe.
In the front closet of the house I keep a .12 gauge loaded with two #8 shots for stinging purposes and the next three rounds are slugs if the two ouch that hurts rounds don’t induce said bear to leave the premises. This was a load setup suggested by my local game warden for nuisance bears.
Virginian Dragoon
in .44 MAG.
I gotta see That!
I’m sitting here looking at
My .44 Colt Walker which is
6 lbs of History and I
Love It!
Another Ammoland clickbate article.
Interarms made Single action in several calibers.
Nice.
It’s okay FRiend,
Goldilocks WINS!
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THANKS DEAN.
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