Father Uses .44 Magnum to Shoot Grizzly Bear off Son

Ammoland ^ | 30 October, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Bella Twin, Little Woman with a Little Gun, a Big Bear, and a Cold Front

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/06/bella-twin-little-woman-with-little-gun.html

Hard to argue with success.

[Cen-Tejas]

........you mention “bear spray”........I can’t pass up commenting on one danger of bear spray. I spend a large part of my summers on the Yukon, mainly just floating down the river but I have had many bear sightings and a bear in camp once. It’s also noteworthy that I’m always alone.

Anyway, that “once” I didn’t feel really threatened by the bear because I’m pretty use to being in their backyard and it was not a real big one and it was not exhibiting threatening body language just hungry and nosey behavior.

So, I had my Remington 870 Magnum Tactical in hand with safety off and ready to fire. It was loaded with 000 Magnum shells and would have annihilated the bear had I shot as he was only about 50 feet away. So, with maybe 2 minutes to think things over I sort of employed the bear spray. At about the time I was going to squirt the spray, it dawned on me that there was a slight breeze to my face so if I shot the bear with the spray at least some of it definitely would have come back in my face and almost surely have incapacitated me.

So, my point to all reading this is that, arguably, the spray in a “bear situation” is quite likely to get you killed if you make ANY mistake in employing it.

I still carry it because I do not want to KILL a bear. But, I’m not a goofy liberal and I will kill it if I feel threatened.

[MileHi]

The FWP officers told Dave if he had bear spray, he might have avoided having to shoot the bear. Dave noted the FWP officers were all armed with shotguns and had loaded pistols on their hips.

Yeah, you first, officer.

[Manly Warrior]

I too piled on ungraciously. I too have been the victim of age and not enough coffee.

Mea Culpa.