40 S&W Bullet Stops Brown Bear Charge!

[Marshall]

Shhhhhhhhh!

Be beary beary qwiet, I'm hunting wabbits.

 

[bluedsteelnwood]

Bear Self Defense Shooting

The gentleman is lucky he doesn't live in my former state where if somone breaks into your house you legally have to retreat until you can no longer avoid the threat. He would have charged him with bear manslaughter for failure to retreat to a safe place. Seriously though an excellent story which shows the values that this sportsman holds. Would have liked to have seen the typical distortion newspapers in the NY/NJ area would have written, somthiing like man shoots and wounds a mother bear guarding her cubs leaving them as orphans in danger of starvation.No mention would have been made of the bear's current residence behind a house with kids. Reminds me a of self defense shooting where I use to live where a homeowner shot and wounded an intruder who had an extensive record of home robbery and assault during such and this was not mentioned until weeks later in the paper after it was made to seem that this felon was shot capriciously for just being in a fellow's home uninvited.

 

[Dain Bramage]

Is this going to end up as a "one shot stop" with Marshal and Sannow?

 

[Variable]

Lol I'm not gonna be pulling pepper spray when a bear is only 1 or 2 seconds away. Unless its that big arse fog horn bear spray.

 

[Badger Arms]

UPDATE:

By DOUG O'HARRA
Anchorage Daily News

(Published: May 27, 2004)

State biologists managed to capture one of two newly orphaned brown bear cubs hiding in the forest off Rabbit Creek Road on Tuesday night in a mad-dash ambush using a couple of salmon dipnets.

The two-and-a-half-hour ordeal to rescue the baby animals, whose mother was shot and killed Saturday, began with the aid of an English setter dog. It soon involved a squad of diligent neighbors, an extension ladder, a harrowing, skin-ripping climb up a dead spruce and one portable, camouflaged hunting blind.

It ended with one cub screeching inside a kennel like it was being roasted alive, while its sibling scrambled free into the underbrush.

"He was a very unhappy bear," state biologist Rick Sinnott said. "They make a noise like a Tasmanian devil, the worst possible noise. He was just like holy terror."

But by Wednesday morning, that fuzzy cub was nestled on straw at the Alaska Zoo, its belly full of special formula mixed with puppy chow, rice and bananas. It will go on public display today, zoo officials said.

"It looks like he's doing pretty good, other than being very hungry," zoo curator Pat Lampi said. "They're resilient little critters."

The second bear remained at large Wednesday. Biologists and local residents hope to find it before it gets munched by an adult bear or starves. One strategy would entail laying the sow's hide on the ground near the cub to attract it, state biologists said.

Both cubs, sex still unknown, would have been born earlier this year in a den on or near the Anchorage Hillside and cannot live alone for more than a few more days.

"We go out about every couple hours to try to find the cub," said Frank Bettine, who fired a single shot at the cubs' mother when the animal charged him at close quarters Saturday night. "I'm thrilled that we were able to capture one, and we'll keep looking until we can capture the other."

The sow grizzly was killed Saturday night after it charged two Anchorage police officers who returned to the scene with Bettine. The sow had been feeding on a moose calf in a bed scratched out beneath thick alders a few hundred yards from housing in a wild area northeast of Rabbit Creek Road and Goldenview Drive.

If the other cub can be found, it will be reunited with its sibling at the zoo and go on display until they get adopted by a Lower 48 facility, said Lampi and zoo director Tex Edwards.

"We do not have room for more bears, brown or black," Edwards said.

The sow and cubs were almost certainly the same three bears reported meandering across the lower Hillside during the past two weeks, said Sinnott, Anchorage-area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Sinnott and assistant biologist Jessy Coltrane couldn't get the cubs down from a tree on Sunday night, then couldn't find them during trips to the area Monday. On Tuesday evening, Bettine's wife, Genivee, saw the cubs and treed them with the help of the couple's English setter, Bear- sheba, Frank Bettine said.

Sinnott, Coltrane, a volunteer and a half-dozen neighbors gathered beneath a tall spruce a bit before 8 p.m. Using an extension ladder borrowed from a resident, Sinnott began climbing the tree, cutting out a path through the snarl with a saw, moving closer to the cubs branch by branch.

Scratched up and holding the trunk with one hand, Sinnott said, he tried to reach the lowest bear with a rope snare on the end of a pole.

"I was going to try to pull it down the tree bit by bit, but I worried it might land on my face," he said later.

The cubs edged higher. Then higher still.

Coltrane, holding on about 15 feet below, said bits of bark and sap were raining in her face. "Rick's insane," she said later. "He climbed pretty high; I wasn't going to go that high."

The biologists retreated to stiffen the rope loop with duct tape. By then, the cubs had made it to the crown.

"They were up in the very tip of the tree, where it was about two inches in diameter," Sinnott said. "I thought they were going to fall out."

Bettine offered to bring them a portable blind. The neighbors retreated from the scene. The two biologists placed two dipnets along one trail and one on another, then crouched behind the blind with volunteer Kevin Ewing.

With everything quiet, the three people waited. Within 15 or 20 minutes, the two bears began to scramble down the trunk.

When the animals reached the ground, Sinnott and Coltrane burst from cover, snatched up the dipnets as they sprinted -- and swooped down, one net over each bear.

"We had both of them, but it's really hard to use a dipnet in brush because it gets caught on everything," Coltrane said. Her net was partly hung up on a log, leaving the bear a few inches to squeeze out and make a break for the alders.

Sinnott then grabbed the other bear by the scruff of the neck and tried to put it in a kennel. It splayed its legs, he said, and wouldn't go in. He tried again.

"When you first catch them, they're a ball of teeth and claws and you don't really want to handle them," he said. "He was a very healthy bear."

The plan was to wait for the other cub to return to its sibling. But when the three people again hid behind the blind, the cub seemed to go berserk -- screeching and thumping around.

"It was like we had caught some type of gremlin," Coltrane said. "The kennel was bowing in and out, and it was shaking. We were afraid he was attracting every predatory bear within miles."

Finally the biologists took the little bear away from the scene. It spent the night at Fish and Game headquarters, then went to the zoo about 9 a.m.

Lampi, who has cared for dozens of orphaned bear cubs over the years, said it growled at him and thumped its cage at first. But a dish of blended formula and chow soon mellowed it.

"He walked right up and scarfed the food without hesitating," he said. "It's acting very healthy -- it was climbing up the side of the cage. They learn fast."

 

[Badger Arms]

The second bear remained at large Wednesday. Biologists and local residents hope to find it before it gets munched by an adult bear or starves. One strategy would entail laying the sow's hide on the ground near the cub to attract it, state biologists said.

This surreal bit of journalism would NOT appear on any page in a lesser 48 state, that's for sure. "So, let's put the cub's dead mommy out and see if he comes to retrieve the body. We don't want the cub's uncle eating him!"

Doesn't that cub look sorta like a badger, though?

 

[Feanaro]

Are we just going to just shoot all of our wildlife?

No but we are gonna kill the ones that CHARGE AT PEOPLE. What do you think the bear was gonna do, give the guy a hug?

Anyways, .40S&W worked but not because it severely wounded or killed the bear. In fact the article doesn't say if the bear was hit, unless I missed something. It might not have stopped the bear if it has decided to keep coming. But then again, we'll never know. He was armed and that is the important thing.

 

[hoser45]

DoubleTap ammo 40 with hard cast bullet?

Would any of you feel this would be a good load for small black bear out of a S&W M&P40C (compact)?

http://www.doubletapammo.com/php/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_26&products_id=210

I know there are bigger and better loads, but want to carry concealed and have it on my ccw license.