The bear charged two hunters on Sept. 14 at the head of Eldridge Creek, according to a Custer Gallatin National Forest press release. One of the hunters fired his handgun several times in the direction of the bear as it charged within a few feet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n June 25, 2021 South Lake Tahoe, California Black Bear pistol unknown<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. \u2013 More details have become available on the shooting, and subsequent death, of\u00a0a bear on June 25 in the county area of South Lake Tahoe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n A person renting a vacation home on Pioneer Trail last week returned to the house after going out for dinner with the other occupants of the home. Upon entry into the home on the bottom level, this person heard noises coming from the second-floor living space. Not knowing if it were human or animal causing the noise, he grabbed his pistol and went to investigate, according to California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) Captain Patrick Foy. July, 2021, unknown handgun, near Nome, Alaska, Grizzly<\/a> Richard Jessee says he was riding his ATV with a trailer attached to it to it in Nome last week when he says the bear \u2018came out of nowhere\u2019, picked it up like \u2018a toy\u2019 and tossed it<\/i><\/p>\n He fired a shot from his pistol to scare the bear then escaped to his cabin where for four days, he cowered while the bear \u2018stalked\u2019 him. July 19, 2021 Chena Hot Springs, AK, Grizzly, .44 magnum<\/a> Jul. 21\u2014A man shot a grizzly bear sow Monday morning after it charged him and his son in a remote area off a trail near Chena Hot Springs Road northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska State Troopers said.<\/i><\/p>\n The injured bear had not been located by Tuesday afternoon.<\/i><\/p>\n The man and son happened upon the sow and cub around 11:12 a.m. while walking in a remote area near Smallwood Trail off Chena Hot Springs Road, troopers wrote in an online statement.<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cOnce the adult male and the sow made eye contact the bear charged,\u201d troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel said.<\/i><\/p>\n The man shot the bear with a .44 Magnum revolver, troopers said. The sow was believed to be acting defensively to protect her cub, McDaniel said in an email.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n September 23, 2021, Island Park Idaho, Grizzly Bear 10 mm from AmmoLand article on 10mm defenses<\/a> Then, on 23 September, a sow grizzly, reportedly with cubs in the area, was shot and killed when it attacked archery hunters near Island Park. The hunters deployed both bear spray and a pistol. The incident is still under investigation, but it appears the bear was shot at very close range. It is elk archery season in Idaho. A source inside the investigation informed this correspondent the pistol was a 10mm.\u00a0\u00a0From idaho.gov:<\/a><\/p>\n On Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, Idaho Fish and Game received a report of a sow grizzly bear that charged two elk hunters in the Stamp Meadows area near Island Park. As the bear charged, one of the hunters deployed bear spray while the other discharged a firearm at close range, mortally wounding the bear. Neither hunter appeared to be injured during the encounter.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tyler reported the son remembered seeing the red dot of his pistol sight on the bear for every shot.<\/i><\/p>\n The bear continued to advance, slowed down by Tyler and the son\u2019s shots. Tyler advanced to a position a few feet to the side of the son, shooting a couple of more times on the run. The bear was continuing the charge toward them. It had been slowed by multiple hits.<\/i><\/p>\n Tyler remembers he and the son shot, and shot, and shot. The pair fired a total of 31 shots.\u00a0 Numerous hours at the range paid off for the son. He finished one magazine and completed a speed reload while Tyler was still shooting.<\/i><\/p>\n As the bear got within 10 feet, its speed had slowed considerably.\u00a0 Tyler was concentrating on chest shots. Tyler believes he broke one or both shoulders. The bear veered hard right into a tree. Tyler took a step forward and shot the bear in the side of the skull, through the brain, twice.\u00a0 The Buffalo Bore bullets penetrated through the brain and lodged in the skull on the other side. The distance was five feet. The deadly fight was over.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n October 17, 2021, Alaska Baronof Island Grizzly Sow .44 magnum<\/a>, had tag for bear<\/b><\/p>\n By this point, Hammock had made up his mind: He would shoot the bear if she got within 20 feet of him and his kill. He had a valid brown bear tag in his pack, after all.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis whole time she\u2019s weaving through trees trying to sneak up to me, and I\u2019m standing next to my deer trying to move around and keep something between us while also staying where I can still see her,\u201d Hammock said. \u201cI get this log in between me and her, and she\u2019s coming directly for me. When she was about 20 feet away, I yelled as loud as I could again and threw a rock in her direction. My spot was that log. I was like, if she reaches right here I\u2019m gonna have to shoot her. And so once she put both front feet on that log, I shot her right in the heart.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Of these 20 cases, 15 involve a single, known, pistol caliber. Here are the current numbers of cases for those calibers:<\/p>\n Caliber seems far less important than the willingness to use the firearm and kill the bear.<\/p>\n If a reader knows of a case that is not in our records, please send the information to AmmoLand. Most cases of handgun defenses against bears have probably not been documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUF: Of these 20 cases, 15 involve a single, known, pistol caliber. Here are the current numbers of cases for those calibers: 9mm \u2013 seven documented cases, all successful .38 Special \u2013\u00a0 four documented cases, three successful, one failure .357 magnum \u2013 nine documented cases, eight successful, one failure .40 S&W\u00a0 \u2013 five documented cases, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79933,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79931\/revisions\/79933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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