So you walk outside and see this:

Poster ACP.
Your 44 magnum is plenty of gun. 300 grain hard cast bullets will drop the blackie with no problem. I use my Redhawk for bear. I shot my 1st with bullet. 30 yard heart/lung shot. Bear went maybe 20 yards and piled up.
Show Low AZ 1992. Bear weighted in at 332 lbs

Agreed, a 44 is more than enough.

But that is a problem bear, and the most dangerous kind. Truly wild bears will almost always run from humans and cause no problems. Once they get used to humans, and getting food from garbage cans etc. they lose all fear and cause problems. I'd bet that bear has already been caught, tagged and released far from where it got into trouble once. Now that it is showing up in folks yards again I'd say the only way to deal with it is to put it down.

In my area, this is what you might stumble into when you walk into your backyard!



No joke. I've lived in a couple of houses in the past that back into a good sized lake. Reports of Gaterr's are not uncommon. They can even be found swimming in people's pools if they have one.

In any case (bear or gator), I don't walk out with anything less than a .30cal rifle or a 12ga shotgun

The bear is cute and cuddly and fashionably plump.. But I remember reading a few weeks ago about some Indian college kid being killed and eaten by a black bear somewhere on the East Coast. Black bears may generally be docile, but they are large wild predatory animals. Giving it a treat today may result in someone being killed tomorrow.

So, THAT'S where I left him.
He was supposed to be driving us home, while I slept in the passenger seat, but I awoke at a rest stop and he was gone.
I thought he'd just gone to do what bears do in the woods.
I'd better drive up there and get him, before he gets himself in trouble.

BTW, he doesn't like to be called a bear. He says he's a "bruin-American".
Let me pack the car and head out.
Now, where did I put that pic-a-nic basket?

That gator would scare me a lot more than any bear. Not many of them at 8K feet though.

My back yard borders a swamp, those gators plop over into my neighbors pond occasionally. Never give us any problems... we stay in our yards, they stay in the pond or the swamp. I do keep an eye on my dog. Couple of neighbors who let theirs run loose have lost some dogs... we assume in the swamp.

stupid gator he just walked into "Remington Country ".

GBExpat said:

This post reminds me of all the sad remakes of movies that got it right the first time out.

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Well Ruger came out with the first .44 magnum if you remember correctly , hit the shelves before the Smith did. However I have both guns and would carry either in bear country .

After feeding him go up to him and show him your love by grabbing his jowls and giving him a big sloppy kiss on his shnout before putting your arms around his neck and giving him a big face to face hug.

After calling it in I would watch the situation...with a 12 gauge and my heftiest Brenneke slugs close by.

It does look like a big fuzzy pet-able oversize dog though.

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After feeding him go up to him and show him your love by grabbing his jowls and giving him a big sloppy kiss on his shnout before putting your arms around his neck and giving him a big face to face hug.

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Looks like we may have a Bear Perv in our midst.

You'll need a dozen cupcakes, and a saddle

"But we can tame him..."

TCB

"Here, hold my beer, I want to try somethin'"

Keep them away from your trampoline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1pIO4_lUY

My sister (in the mountains of Colorado) was making an applesauce cake last August. Spotted this bear on the back porch and snapped a picture. About 5 minutes later, heard a crash at the front of the house and the bear had come inside the house through a first floor window looking for that cake. She ran into the utility room - when she peeked out, the bear saw her and headed out through the same window. Now they are getting burglar bars!

I'll see your bear falling from tree onto trampoline, and raise you two bear cubs falling out of a hammock;
Awwwwww...

TCB

We've drifted too far. This iteration of the "What caliber for bear?" thread is over.