The Jaeger "Bears" Fruit.

[Ugly Sauce]

Funny thing is that there's no time for fear really, being 100% focused on the task. To say the least. Yep, not sure I would want to do it for someone else, but I gut-shot it, so it was what it was, or is what it is, or whatever it was it is....or something like that! Just had to do it, get her done, no choice. But, front-loader or not, I have faith in a .600" ball over 110 grains of Swiss. The "funny" thing was, (funny in retrospect, not at the time) was that the two times I missed the bear, I was sure I had hit it, (positive) and just could not figure out how the bear was surviving two hits of that .600" ball and tea-cup of Swiss. !!!!

And again, I hope what others will learn from this, is that even a very heavy caliber is not going to plow through heavy brush, limbs, etc. I've never bought into the "brush buster" thing, but thought that at that close range the deflection would be minimal. NOT!

 

[Random 8]

Funny thing is that there's no time for fear really, being 100% focused on the task. To say the least. Yep, not sure I would want to do it for someone else, but I gut-shot it, so it was what it was, or is what it is, or whatever it was it is....or something like that! Just had to do it, get her done, no choice. But, front-loader or not, I have faith in a .600" ball over 110 grains of Swiss. The "funny" thing was, (funny in retrospect, not at the time) was that the two times I missed the bear, I was sure I had hit it, (positive) and just could not figure out how the bear was surviving two hits of that .600" ball and tea-cup of Swiss. !!!!

And again, I hope what others will learn from this, is that even a very heavy caliber is not going to plow through heavy brush, limbs, etc. I've never bought into the "brush buster" thing, but thought that at that close range the deflection would be minimal. NOT!

Yeah, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Props for following the bear into danger and doing your duty. I double tapped one last year on 4th of July weekend in the firelight as it was killing a friends dog in a predatory attack at a campfire I was attending. Small bear, but probably an underpowered round in a handgun at more than common handgun range. Definitely not the gun I would grab to stop a bear. Instinct and training take over. Know your piece, whatever it is. Unfortunately that one had health issues and was unfit to eat. I like bear meat, and it was sad that that one had to be composted at a university research facility or whatever they do with them.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Wow. Now that's quite a camp-fire experience! Yeah, sitting around the fire, I don't usually have the .44 or .45 Colt on my side. If you got it with just a double tap, I think you did well.