Scary

[Deerslayer]

Or maybe I should have titled this "Time to Change Your Undies" :eek:

An outfitter sent this to me:


Friends,

Have I got a story for you guys!

King season is over, and since i had a day off before silvers start, i thought i would go for a walk! this occurred at 11:16 am this morning (Sunday), just 2/10 of a mile from my house, ON OUR ROAD while walking my dogs (trying to get in shape for hunting season, ironically!) for the record, this is in a residential area-not back in the woods, no bowhunting, no stealth occurring...

I heard a twig snap, and looked back...full on charge-a huge brownie, ears back, head low and motorin' full speed! Came with zero warning; no woof, no popping of the teeth, no standing up, nothing like what you think or see on TV! It charged from less than 20 yards and was on me in about one-second! Totally surreal-I just started shooting in the general direction, and praise God that my second shot (or was it my third?) Rolled him at 5 feet and he skidded to a stop 10 feet BEYOND where I was shooting from-I actually sidestepped him and fell over backwards on the last shot, and his momentum carried him to a stop past where I fired my first shot!

It was a prehistoric old boar-no teeth, no fat-weighed between 900-1000 lbs and took five men to DRAG it onto a tilt-bed trailer! Big bear-its paw measured out at about a 9 1/2 footer!

never-ever-thought "it" would happen to me! its always some other smuck, right? well, no bull- i am still high on adrenaline, with my gut in a knot. feels like i did 10000 crunches without stopping! almost puked for an hour after, had the burps and couldn't even stand up as the troopers conducted their investigation! totally wiped me out-cant even put that feeling into words, by far the most emotion i have ever felt at once!

No doubt that God was with me, as I brought my Ruger .454 Casull (and some "hot" 350 grain solids) just for the heck of it, and managed to draw and snap shoot (pointed, never even aimed!) from the hip! Total luck shot!

All I can say is Praise God for my safety and for choosing to leave the wife and kids at home on this walk! Got a charter tomorrow, so gonna TRY to get some sleep now!

talk to ya soon, -greg

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Greg & Sherri Brush
EZ Limit Guide Service
PO Box 4278
Soldotna, AK 99669
907-262-6169
http://www.ezlimit.com/

[Smokey]

Nothing like a nice morning walk with your dog in Alaska. That is a big bear.

[Greywolf]

Exzillerating!
GOT PAPER?

[Altjaeger]

More stimulating than that morning cupof coffee.:D

[postoak]

IF this is on the up and up (and too often these stories turn out to be miscaptioned), then it is one of the great dangerous game encounters of all time! :cool:

To stop a charging brown bear in 20 yards with any round, much less a pistol round is a great feat. I wonder where he hit it?

[Deerslayer]

IF this is on the up and up (and too often these stories turn out to be miscaptioned), then it is one of the great dangerous game encounters of all time!

The story is true. Here is some corraborating evidence.

Peninsula Clarion (http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/080709/out_478669517.shtml)

[postoak]

Thanks.

Interesting bunch of comments at the end of the story.

[Deerslayer]

Yeah I read those too. The one guy complaining about not seeing any bullet holes must not have seen these pics. The picture of the head looks like the guy hit the thing in the mouth damaging the lower jaw and I am sure the bullet continued on through to the neck area. At least if this guy was going to be packing for his walk he picked a good caliber to tote in .454 Casull.

[GF.]

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/slideshows/080709/478669517/slide2.shtml

Is that a skid mark in the road? :rolleyes:

Yeah, there's something ugly happening with that bear's mouth. Don't know why all the blood on the paw, either....

But if the COs who were there were able to find tracks, then maybe it really went down as advertised. Not that a bear might not have been sprinting across the road the get away from a speeding pickup truck...which would leave a skid mark... but which would presumably cause the bear to end up out of line with his tracks from before the impact....

Hmmmmmmm..... 3 shots in a fraction of a second does sound unlikely, though.

Hard to know what to think sometimes....

In case the insert image didn't work......

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/slideshows/080709/478669517/slide2.shtml

[postoak]

The skid mark was presumably made by the bear after it had been shot and carried on past the guide.

What I have a problem with is the speed with which he says he got off the 3 shots from the time he first became aware of the bear's presence.

[Deerslayer]

I think that the skid mark that GF is referring to is readily apparent in the photo shown on the newspaper link. If it is there in picture #3 above it is sure hard to see which leads me to believe that it could have been made by a vehicle arriving at the scene after the fact. Of course the angle on the pictures are different too. I would guess the blood on the paw was from the mouth wound when he piled up. The head was probably moved before the picture was taken.

[Greywolf]

Since I first saw the pics, i been thinking he looked more like a victim of GMC.

It's true, that jaw and blod patern looks very much like roadkill. Hmmmm:rolleyes:

[greenjeans]

i dont know about any of you but i sure as hell would of had 3 shots out in that time... I would of been tempted to get more off.

I dont think that its so hard to believe that story but whatever...

[GF.]

There's a clip on YouTube from an Eastman Outdoors TV show in which a raft full of guys gets charged by a PO'd sow as a result of the 2-leggers floating around a corner and finding themselves right on top of her brood. Apparently one of the guys was getting a really prickly feeling as this whole shebang developed and had at the very least started for his pistol before the sow came blowing out of the bushes. And frankly, I think he was already clear of his holster. If you can find the clip, they call this out in the slow-mo replay.

Anyway, he got ONE shot off - into the water in front of the sow - and she stopped and headed back for shore before he got to firing again.

But at the speed she came blowing outta there? Good Lord! It'll pucker you up just watching the clip. She's almost too fast to follow even in slow-mo!

So having seen that, if the guy can get 3 aimed shots off that quickly, he's probably got a shot at the world record. Hmmmmmmmmm..... :rolleyes:

[Hi Ball]

Now after reading the report and viewing those pictures, I will give my opinion to this bear mishap ok. One I find that firing a .454 Casull in 3 fast shots is very hard to do and hit anything in front of you. Especially in the time frame given in the report.

I have a .460 S&W (not as handy as his smaller .454 Casull perhaps) and I sure could not pull off 2 shots with this type of pistol in that quick of time, factoring in the recoil and muzzle jump of that pistol and be able to get back on target for the 3rd shot etc. I really don't believe I could do so even with my model 29 Smith & Wesson 44 magnum, again not in that time frame presented in the report. A big grizzly charging fast is a force to reckon with and you only have a fraction of a second to get off perhaps ONE SHOT if your lucky!!!.......I believe that this bear was not going full tilt in a charge for starters and that the distance between them was more at the start of the confrontation than presented in the report.

Now I do believe the man was confronted from the rear or side by the bear and I do believe he shot the bear dead. I also believe he was a little lucky with his shooting of his .454 Casull. However, it just didn't happen 100% of what was in the report. Now a .44 magnum handgun is a two-handed weapon and I can assure you folks, very very few men I have met over the course of 45 years, could ever shoot a .44 magnum handgun with one hand (like Clint Eastwood did in Dirty Harry) and hit targets after the first shot out of the barrel. Now comes the .454 Casull in a short barrel pistol with almost twice the recoil to the hand, arm and shoulder. Not to mention the muzzle jump of that pistol after the first shot was fired at that big ole grizzly bear. You draw your own conclusions, I have already drawn mine.

I don't believe the reports or suggestions that fisherman or others are leaving remains of fish on the banks, roads etc near homes. It took the Alaska FISH & GAME people some 5 years to figure out why the moose population was in drastic decline a few years ago. The reason was the explosion of the GRIZZLY BEAR population, which they refused to acknowlege. However, they had to do a big study to realize this and spend thousands of tax paper dollars.

[Hi Ball]

GF..........Yes, glad you brought that U-Tube flick up in your post! :eek:

Now folks this clip will make a believer out of anybody when it comes to wondering just how fast a charging bear is in wild. Please do NOT BLINK or you will miss the whole show, it is that fast.

Now sit back and run it a couple more times and pretend you have a pistol in your hands. You just try to draw and fire 3 times before that bear is on top of you and the bear is going through the water mind you.;) :D

[Greybeard]

I'm not sure that is an old bear. I have not looked inside its mouth for the teeth. Brown bears are big and young brown bears are big. Take a look at the size of the head relative to the size of the ears. The head is relatively small. That would indicate a young bear. Yes the head is large but brown bears have large heads. It is a skinny bear as its ribs show which might tie into the story of an old bear with no teeth. Lots of tales spun around brown bears and this is another one. Always take a grain of salt along with your shot and beer in the bar. Greybeard.