Gary Reeder
deer and bears must hate Nissans. Colleen hit that bear
Friday, October 29, 2021, 10:40

with her new Nissan Armada. All airbags went off crumpled the right front and when the bear swung around on the impact he hit all the way down the right side (spreading bear shit all over the side of the vehicle). It was almost $25,000 damages and didn't even kill the bear. Colleen called me to tell me she had hit a bear and he was still walking around her car. I was maybe 2 minutes from there so I drove there to see what I could do. The bear was a young bear maybe 150 lbs and was walking on the side of the road just in front of her truck like he was dazed. I shot the bear 3 times with a 45 ACP and got no response. These were a name brand hollow points and did nothing to him. A little old lady pulled up as I was trying to put the bear down and gave me hell about shooting that poor bear. I told her the bear had been hit with a truck and I was putting him out of his misery and for her to get her big ass back in her car.

About that time Highway Patrol rolled up. Colleen had called him when she hit the bear. He saw that my 45 wasn't doing anything to the bear so he ran back to his car and got his M-16 out and put one in the bear's head and ended the whole thing. He was a young trooper and was having fun.
We cut the spots open on the bears shoulder where I had hit him with the 45 and the hollow points had clogged up with bear fat and hair and went maybe 1 1/2" into him. All 3 shots had failed to penetrate and did no damage to the bear. That was when I gave up on any jacketed hollow point. From then on I have run 230 grain FMJs in my 45s.