Gun Control is Completely Useless.
- Thread starter Colpy
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Wow, is that your way of calling me a murdering rapist because I shoot holes into paper? I sincerely hope you seek help.
You'd better be Buffalo Fecking Bill 'cause if you don't manage to pierce the bear's very thick skull with your pistol on the first shot, you will piss it off and the only part of you remaining will be your NRA membership card.
Apparently, you haven't tried it, yet. Do you know of any living people who have?
If you are going to kill a bear at close range a 12 gauge with a one ounce slug sounds right to me.
Ideally you would kill it form a distance with a proper rifle for the task.
Using a pistol designed to shoot holes in people or paper is ill advised.
Ideally you would kill it form a distance with a proper rifle for the task.
Using a pistol designed to shoot holes in people or paper is ill advised.
Your best bet may be to blind the bear. Try hitting an angry eyeball approaching you at thirty miles an hour.
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The last whitetail deer I shot ran about 100 feet with a vaporized heart.
Close range with a bear is risky. a repeater might be your best bet.
This thread just reminded me, This is the year I have to renew my P A L for combination restricted and non-restricted firearms
Don't you get tired of arguing with stupid people?
Yeah.
When he said ".45" I thought I hope he means a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Long Colt, loaded with the heavy, extra power rounds that pistol is designed to handle.
Because shooting at bears with a .45 ACP is just nuts. No sufficient penetrative ability.
Better than throwing rocks, but that is the best that can be said for it.
When I carried in the bush I used a .44 magnum Ruger Blackhawk which I loaded myself, and i cast the lead myself using the babbit alloy the mill was using for wet bearings on the paper machines, soft enough so as not to damage the lands and grooves of the barrel, but hard enough to penetrate the thick skull of a bear.
when I'm in the bush I like to have a shotgun because I can survive with it if I need to. It offers me the ability to kill anything that lives in North America from a small bird to eat to a bear that is after me. I understand that a hunting rifle would be better for the bear killing part from a distance, but it destroys small game.
ON the other hand a pistol lets me look cool and kill myself if things get too bad.
The reason I carried a handgun in the bush was because when prospecting you work with your hands and you don't want a rifle on a sling to flop around every time you bend over to pick a rock or shovel some dirt.
For back packing and just walk around in the bush, my preference for an all around survival gun would be an over and under rifle-shotgun combo...
For back packing and just walk around in the bush, my preference for an all around survival gun would be an over and under rifle-shotgun combo...
rest assured when I do venture outdoors and into the bush it is not with a pistol on my hip - although that is a cool look.