gary reeder
for bear take the biggest caliber you can
Monday, February 03, 2020, 20:42

handle. I have danced with 3 bears and before the dancing and the kissing each one was shot several times. One with a hot loaded 44 Mag with 265 grain soft point bullets (this was in 1990 so no really big bore handguns then). Six shots with the S&W model 29 and the last 3 were with the gun up against the bears arm pit and has ass on my chest. This one was a hybrid. The Game & Fish said they see this from time to time. A black bear sow in heat and a smaller male grizzly and you have a hybrid. He had the hump on his back, the short nose, teddy bear hears and bad attitude. The only thing not grizzly was the short claws.

The second was a cinnamon bear Colleen had shot out of a big tree with her 338 GNR. He hit the ground like he was dead. I walked up to him, looked at the Cinnamon fur, turned to tell Colleen it was a great bear, turned back to the bear and he was facing me at kissing distance. Six quick shots later from a 41 GNR Redhawk and the bear was down.

Bear #3 was in Alaska. After he got a bit too close a hot loaded 510 GNR rolled him at my feet. He got up and went back by me at about 2 feet and another 510 GNR hit him, so close the scope that was on the 510 and each chamber front were clogged with his blood. And I still had to go in after him. No pic of the bear, just the 510 GNR that took him.

So don't figure 1000 FPS will be fine. It might be, then again it might just piss him off. Get a bear mad and he just might come up that tree for his dessert.