A grizzly confronts you...

[Hawksnest]

You just interrupted a day of play as two young cubs scurry off. Mama Bear is closeby; only 50 yards away. She is in a bad mood and you're in her crosshairs. Which caliber would you want in your hands at this time?

Note: FMJ, JHP, and hollow-point can be applied to each cartridge if it is your preference. Also, I know there is probably more than one obvious answer here, but take into consideration the weight of the gun and being able to steady it in your stance.

This thread is really just for fun speculation, so that's mostly why I added some of the silly cartridges some of you may call "overkill". If you can really justify saying that when you're talking about a grizzly...

 

[Geckgo]

This again. You are going to hear people say "nothing less than a 12 ga loaded with slugs, preferably an AR-10 firing .308 Nozzlers, etc. etc." You will also hear, "I've killed a grizzly with a .22 right through the eyeball."

I don't know about grizzlies, but I've seen my share of hogs and gators around their babies and then never charged me out of spite. When I was surveying in FL, one of our crews was out wading in the water with baby alligators swimming around them, which they occasionally had to gently push to the side as mama watched. No problems.

Step 1, back away slowly but don't turn your back on her, grab what you got.
If she does decide to charge (a stupid move on her part), empty the magazine, reload and empty another if there is time, and when you run out of bullets, throw the gun

 

[Shadow 7D]

Ok, so like I live in Alaska, and have never been confronted, accused, mugged or otherwise molested or malingned by a Grizzly, remarkable they tend to be doing other things, like eating, or woodsy type stuff.

THIS THREAD IS POINTLESS.....
come on folks, lets start a fun one, like what rifle for red dawn
OR
if you are going to confront a tank, do you want a boys rifle or ........


HOW BOUT THIS
I want pepper spray, the good 30-50 foot cone of fog stuff, where is that choice.

 

[Geckgo]

I assumed the poll was for hunting bear

 

[Shadow 7D]

Nope not hunting

says it right there

A Grizzly confronts you...

I mean, what did you do, steal his old lady
turn over his trash

Did you ding his car
drink his beer,

What did you do to the poor bear?

Personally I would leave the grizzly alone, but then I'm a wimp and like living.

 

[irishelcid]

how about a 20mm depleted uranium shell?

 

[Shadow 7D]

Don't try that in Alaska, they would confiscate your Apache
thats not sporting....
and those fish and game guys are everywhere

 

[chas08]

I voted 45/70 bacause I own one, and the caliber has proven itself in just such encounters. I'm sure many other calibers would do just as well or better.

 

[longsman]

There was a video on telly recently where woman was attacked by a bear while she was sleeping in a tent. The bear started chewing on her hand, but she pretended that she was dead and bear left her alone. It didn't say weather bear finished eating her hand, though?

 

[cannibal4]

check this video out !!

http://www.wimp.com/curiousbear/

 

[CoRoMo]

Why am I not holding one of my beloved .270's?

Can't vote then.

 

[jake48]

I watched a program on tv filmed in Alaska about game wardens who where in charge of controling nuicance bears that come into town and cause problems.Their gun/load of choice is the 12guage with slugs,so I voted with the experts.

 

[rocky1]

There was a video on telly recently where woman was attacked by a bear while she was sleeping in a tent. The bear started chewing on her hand, but she pretended that she was dead and bear left her alone. It didn't say weather bear finished eating her hand, though?

Somehow the wisdom of playing dead escapes me there... If you were sleeping and the bear started to eat you, how would playing dead be an improvement in things??

 

[hso]

Ball up and ride it out. A grizzly defending her young will bat you around long enough to be sure the cubs aren't threatened and then trot off after the cubs. She's not interested in killing or eating you. A wounded grizzly is a different story.

I have a buddy from long ago that stumbled into this situation and while no one would want to go through the experience he followed the drop and ball up instruction and survived with no permanently debilitating injuries.

 

[xXxplosive]

The biggest cannister of Bear repelant....pepper spray I can handle.....the spray usually shoots to something like 20 feet and I just saw a show about using this rather than fire arms..........although, I'd deffinately be armed also.

 

[Art Eatman]

This subject has been beaten to death many, many times. The bad part is that such admitted silliness does not make the website look good...