{"id":87986,"date":"2022-11-22T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87986"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:28:58","slug":"87986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87986","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of the 10mm & Bears!<\/em><\/p>\n

Wyoming Dentist Uses GLOCK 10mm Pistol to Stop Grizzly Attack<\/a><\/p>\n

On October, 21, 2022, Wyoming dentist, Dr. Lee Francis, 65 years old, was hunting elk with his 40-year-old son, in the area near Rock Creek, in the Sawtooth Mountains, east of Bondurant, Wyoming.<\/p>\n

In this\u00a0video from KSAL-TV<\/a>, he gives an interview and explains what happened. Dr. Francis is an avid hunter and outdoorsman. He successfully collected a large grizzly bear with a bow and arrow in 2013. Several attempts to contact Dr. Francis have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Dr. Francis had separated from his son when he unintentionally stepped in front of the entrance to a bear den. He saw the fresh dirt, had drawn his Glock 10mm, chambered a round, and was backing away when the bear charged at him out of the den from 10 feet away.<\/p>\n

The best interview about the encounter appears to have been in\u00a0an article at cowboystatedaily.com<\/a>.\u00a0 The article says Dr. Francis used 130-grain hardcast bullets in his 10mm Glock.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came right at me, and he came on full blast,\u201d the elder Francis said.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Counting the cartridge already in the chamber, he had 14 rounds loaded with 130 grain hard cast bullets in his Glock.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI just remember shooting three or for times, right before he hit me,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I went down on my back.\u201d\u2026<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hard cast bullets will punch through a bruin\u2019s body, instead of rapidly expanding and expending their energy in massive, shallow wounds
\nthe way that hollow point bullets do, he said.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cHollow points are meant for stopping people, not bears,\u201d he said, adding that it was also fortunate for him that his weapon was loaded
\nwith hard cast bullets.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cA hit from a hollow point would have probably just exploded my whole foot,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

He also said he favors the high-capacity, semi-automatic Glock over magnum revolvers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

130-grain hardcast bullets for a 10mm would be unusual. Perhaps it is a typo or misreading of notes, where another weight of bullet was intended.\u00a0\u00a0Buffalo Bore has a 220-grain<\/a>\u00a0hardcast bullets loaded for bear in the 10mm.<\/p>\n

Dr. Francis was attempting to fend off the bear with his feet when he accidentally wounded himself.<\/h3>\n

In the over\u00a0123 documented cases<\/a>\u00a0where pistols were fired in defense against bears, I recall only two where the person firing the pistol wounded themselves.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, both were with 10mm pistols.\u00a0 Both happened as the defender fell on their back and attempted to fend off the bear with their feet.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The first case\u00a0was with Kim Woodman<\/a>\u00a0who had to shoot a grizzly sow at a bad breath distance in 2016. Kim was backing away from the bear when he tripped and went over backward. He continued to fire, and shot the tip-off of the middle toe of his left foot as he shot the bear and attempted to block it with his foot at the same time.<\/p>\n

Police officers train to be able to back up without falling, and failing that, to avoid shooting their legs or feet if they fall backward.<\/p>\n

Those techniques can be handy for people who carry pistols as a potential defense against bears. Here is one video on\u00a0shooting while moving<\/a>.\u00a0 Here is one for\u00a0shooting from your back<\/a>.\u00a0 The important thing to practice is not to point the muzzle at your own body, obviously a more difficult task in the middle of a fight for your life.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of the 10mm & Bears! Wyoming Dentist Uses GLOCK 10mm Pistol to Stop Grizzly Attack On October, 21, 2022, Wyoming dentist, Dr. Lee Francis, 65 years old, was hunting elk with his 40-year-old son, in the area near Rock Creek, in the Sawtooth Mountains, east of Bondurant, Wyoming. In this\u00a0video from KSAL-TV, he gives … 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-87986","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\/87986","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=87986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87987,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87986\/revisions\/87987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}