Posted on 09/15/2018 6:38:54 AM PDT by marktwain
Good gun and capacity but he needs to use a more powerful load. Hornady ammo he used is rated for 523 ft. lbs. of muzzle energy. There are loads available (Sig, Buffalo Bore, Barnes) with muzzle energy ranging from 624-1150 ft.lbs.
He should have been carrying 180 grain buffalo bores. For bears you need expansion not penetration. What a story though.
My dogs are family. I would probably hesitate almost as much as if one of my kids were behind the bear.
I can understand the hesitation
Well, my heart is in my throat! Beau is hunting Black Bear this week.
He’s had two close calls in 40 years, though the ‘hand cannon’ he carries is a lot more effective than the one this guy had. (I can’t even lift it, let alone fire it!)
Glad they had a relatively happy ending. Not sure if this would be good or bad PR for his bear hunt guiding business though, LOL!
Bridger is a great guy, but he may never walk the same again.
This is the first time he has been attacked by a bear out of hundreds of hunts.
Your Beau will be ok.
But, if he has a good story to tell, have him get some pictures and I might write it up!
Do you guys actually eat the meat or just make throw rugs? I’ve always heard the meat is horrible.
A leg with a bear's head on it. Not something the emergency room staff see every day.
I always carry a WonderBar in my truck for the specific purpose of prying a big bear’s jaws from off my leg. That would save having to go get a bow saw to cut its head off.
Which is not to joke about this tragedy that could’ve become even more tragic. But as someone else remarked, “priorities” seemed out to lunch — I mean, 20 feet from a desperate bear, you get out your camera instead of your glock? And then worrying about taking a head shot because you might hit a dog?
Great and heart-pounding story, though.
I have eaten a fair amount of bear.
Most of it tasted like a decent grade of roast beef.
Pistols, of whatever caliber, are for when you are not expecting trouble. When you KNOW you are going to be confronting a deadly threat, you grab a rifle (in caliber bigger than .22)
A .22 is all Bella Twin had to dispatch
Her record setting Bear in the 1950s’.
All I’m saying is that if I have a 400 pound bear within charging distance of me, I’d want something with a LOT of stopping power.
The meat is delicious! I use it anywhere I’d use lean beef - but it’s easy to overcook it. Bear meat has little to no fat ‘marbled’ into the meat, as beef does.
His hunting club LOVES my Bear Sloppy Joes, and I like to make Pepper Steak with it in the crock pot, and it’s also really good cut into thin slices then rolled up with bacon and baked. I usually take those to family gatherings where people haven’t tasted bear; always a hit!
I enjoy trying new things with wild game, though I refuse to cook squirrel. When he gets a rabbit with our (usually lazy) Beagle, he does the cooking and shares it with the Beagle, LOL!
His last kill was 480 dressed (that means with the guts out) which was the biggest Black Bear harvested in WI for 2016. Proud of him! Beau is 6’ 3” and that bear was a foot taller than him! We had this hide tanned, and once he gets a peg put in one of the timber rafters in the Family Room, it will hang from there. Right now it is covering a chair. I couldn’t believe how soft the fur is; I was expecting a much rougher coat.
He has two other bear rugs and one 3/4 ‘growling’ mount which is in the recessed stairwell upstairs. If a visitor hasn’t been to our house, I have them walk up the stairway, not looking back until they’re at the top of the steps, LOL! Always good for a shocked look on their face. ;)
Between bear, elk, wild pork, fish, venison and beef that we raise and butcher, the freezer is always full. My man will make sure I don’t starve. It’s the LEAST I can do to make good use of the meat he drags home. :)
That’s a hell of a story!
Amazing that you have to literally kill some animal to stop them, pain alone doesn’t seem to phase them.
His story was written up for the Big Bear Contest for 2016 in the Wisconsin Bear Hunters’ Association magazine, but it’s password protected and I don’t know his password. They sent him a nicely framed photo of him and his bear.
They password protect a lot of the site, as the PETA jerks and others are always harassing them.
Your husband sounds like a no chit guy. I’ve got one too. The bacon bear rolls sound great!
They are delicious - and I’m a very lucky and appreciative woman.
Lucky us! :)
Holy cow.
He should have started with the gun, not his camera.
Just like a wife to call you when you are busy...on the toilet...chasing a bear? Always at the worst possible time.
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