Caliber for Brown Bear? 9mm, of course

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SoupOrMan wrote:I pity the first grizzly bear who dies after being shot with a .380... fired from a Hi-Point.
Imagine the humiliation Mama bear and Baby bear would go through, Papa bear giving up for such a minor caliber. 8-) :lol: 8-) 8-) :lol: :lol:
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slowpoke wrote:
Jericho941 wrote:Bears have been taken with .22, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
It was a 22long, not even lr to boot wasn't it?
http://www.ammoland.com/2014/11/what-22 ... z4c0Vi3tc6
Heh, yup. That's the one I was thinking of.
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This place is mellowing. Last time someone mentioned (jokingly) .25ACP in a bear thread, the response was, "Yeah, .25 will hurt like hell when the bear shoves it up your ass." :lol:
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MiddleAgedKen wrote:This place is mellowing. Last time someone mentioned (jokingly) .25ACP in a bear thread, the response was, "Yeah, .25 will hurt like hell when the bear shoves it up your ass." :lol:
Ah, but that was before we issued the advisory to smear all .25 pistols liberally with Vaseline before entering bear country! Remember, if you shoot a bear with a .25 and the bear ever finds out, it will be angry...
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The other expected response includes 5.56 out of a suppressed 12 inch barrel of an AR, with debarked chihuahuas as the dogs used to flush the bear from cover.

And tactical wheel barrows! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Isn't wheel barrows supposed to be wheelbarrows? (we need a smilie/smiley for grammar Nazi). :roll:
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I once poked a bear in the ass with a toothpick and killed it. :mrgreen:
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Ed Wiseman

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Netpackrat wrote:Ed Wiseman

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I remember when that happened here in Colorado. He killed that bear Tarzan style, stabbing it to death with an arrow while it was mauling him. He was a hero to many, and a devil to others. They tried to bring him up on charges for killing an endangered species. :roll: Wow, hard to believe he's over 80 now. There are rumors of there still being some grizz in the state, down in the Weminuche wilderness. The article mentions the last known grizzly in Colorado was in 1951; a boss I had in the high country back in the mid '70s once told me he knew of a mother and cub crossing the Divide from Summit County into Park County in the central mountains in 1963. A guy reported seeing a pair near the top of Independence Pass, east of Aspen, some years ago. A guy I worked with had a pic of what looked for all the world like a grizz near Lake City some years back. There have also been reports of grizzlies coming down into NW Colorado from Wyoming.
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Darrell wrote:
Netpackrat wrote:Ed Wiseman

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There are rumors of there still being some grizz in the state, down in the Weminuche wilderness.
Entirely possible. DNA studies of bears in MO have shown that some of them are descendant from the original population even though everyone thought they had been wiped out.

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-natu ... black-bear
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