Soldotna mans brush with bear too close for comfort [drops grizzly with Ruger .454 -- MUST-SEE]

Peninsula Clarion ^ | 8/7/09 | Joseph Robertia

[NewJerseyJoe]

Last Sunday a fourth brown bear for the year was killed in a defense of life and property (DLP) shooting, and there is no mistaking that it was the former, not the latter, that was on the line for the man who shot it.

[NewJerseyJoe]

This is the official news article. But for the firsthand story (with the photos), you have to go here: http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=62636

Here is one photo, to whet your appetite:

[Redcitizen]

Thats a grizzly scene.

[Secret Agent Man]

Sounds like he bearly escaped death.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

.454

When only the best will do.....

[hemogoblin]

Looks from the pics like he hit it in the lower jaw maybe? I don’t think the article said.

[vox_freedom]

Nice weapon for a large brown bear.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Stand next to someone shooting a .454 with all the hearing protection you want and you’ll still never forget it. Loud doesn’t even come close to the sound those things make.

[BradtotheBone]

Heh, try shooting one, they have a hell of a recoil too!

[Plutarch]

...drops grizzly with Ruger .454

It would be more impressive if he took on the grizzly with a Ruger 1022.

[Ramius]

Thats a grizzly scene.

More of a Brownie scene. Like a grizzly scene, only bigger and meaner. :-)

[Jeff Chandler]

The pics show a shorter barrel than that, perhaps the Alaskan?

[Frank_2001]

That bear will make a pretty lousy rug;)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

No doubt. Honestly, the report from the one being shot next to me at the range mildly freaked me out.

[Redcitizen]

Supporting the right to arm bears might not be a good idea. A onesided massacre was bruin but fortunately this guy had the right firearm for the job.

[Jeff Chandler]

Yes, the article indicates it was an Alaskan, although the gun in the pic looks longer?

[Parley Baer]

I have a .454 Casull and that is all the handgun I can handle if at that.

[null and void]

More of a Brownie scene. Like a grizzly scene, only bigger and meaner. :-)

Brownie?

Was it a Kodiak Moment?

[Beowulf9]

Maybe that bear heard through the bearline about tasty Timothy Treadwell.

[Miss Behave]

Wow! Great story, (happy ending,) and great pics. That is one brave guy with one rockin’ Ruger. I definately would’ve been Boo-Boo lunch due to extreme and paralizing fear. And he probably would,ve eaten me whole—my still-holstered LCP and all. ;-)

[Ramius]

Bears are already plenty well armed.

But just on general principles... a rifle is a far better sidearm in Alaska than a handgun. A big rifle.