Montana Bow Hunters Kill Charging Grizzly with a Pistol

Dear kgpr,

With a lot of practice, you can actually swing that baby out pretty quick. I can get a sight picture in 1-2 seconds, just about the same as going for a cross carry draw with my .44 magnum.

Here is an interesting video with a man and his 45-70 Marlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AVr7gNmrU

I use a little bit different technique but getting a rifle off the shoulder can be pretty quick.
 
Today, 08:44 AM #22
2damnold4this
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Join Date: August 12, 2009
Location: Athens, Georgia
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Good thing they had a handgun instead of a 12 gauge with 00 buck.
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Buckshot, handgun, just folks personal choice.

God bless

Alaska444
 
When we're berry picking or hunting deer/elk, we load revolvers with what we call "Skullcrackers". The old timers and berrypicking ladies in Montana have known about this and used them for years.

Any large caliber with a hardcast bullet, center drilled and a large panhead Drill/Tap screw screwed into the nose down flush against the bulet. Seat your bullets deep enough to allow the revolver cylinder to rotate.
 
I personally know the hunters and the details are fairly vague...as everything happened so quickly for them. One of them made an effort to scare the bear off and when he did the immediately charged. The sow was roughly 350 pounds. 5 shots were fired and believed to hit the bear 3 times with a 357. The bear went down 7 feet from them with the last shot.
 
Today, 11:08 AM #26
meatsapizza
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Join Date: September 13, 2011
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I personally know the hunters and the details are fairly vague...as everything happened so quickly for them. One of them made an effort to scare the bear off and when he did the immediately charged. The sow was roughly 350 pounds. 5 shots were fired and believed to hit the bear 3 times with a 357. The bear went down 7 feet from them with the last shot.
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Oh come on, everyone knows it is impossible to kill a charging grizzly with .357. LOL. (Tongue in Cheek once again.)

Glad that they are OK. Thanks for the info, I would have thought it was at least a .44 magnum myself, but I do carry a .357 as BUG as well in the woods with my Buffalo Bore 180 gr bullets. Glad to have a real life experience that worked well with only the lowly .357.

Please let us know any further details once that they are able to divulge that sort of information. I suspect until the investigation is concluded, that they will not be saying much at all, nor should they.
 
Since the incident I haven't seen anything from the FWP so really don't want to say much more as to the details. With a lot of talk on other sites I've seen a lot of people already crucifying these guys and making comments of course with knowing no details. I wanted to add that they immediately left and got Fish and Game. When they returned to the site...the bear was gone, so in fact they did not kill the sow. The sow was found and put down by Fish and Game. As more details may come out, I have no doubt that they were justified in their actions by the Fish and Game that day. I nor they also have no doubt that if they had not shot the sow that neither of them would be here today. The bear was not protecting its cubs. On another note Alaska...a lot of things worked in their favor that day (on the luck side). One of them happened to check his .44 the night before and it would not fire. The other who was with him decided to go along at the last second. If...he had not checked his .44 the night before and didn't fire that day it sounds like it would've been too late for him. He ran towards the other guy and the sow was virtually on him when the first shot hit...the bear than turned on the other hunter and as I said before was downed. Very lucky result for both of them.
 
Thanks for the update meatsapizza,

I just don't understand the mindset of crucifying someone defending his life from one of these beasts. If someone wishes to volunteer for the experiment of seeing what a bear will do to you, then those are the folks that should volunteer.

Thank the Lord that they survived.
 
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