SchwarzStock wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 4:34pm:


40-65 is perty powerful.  Loaded right, bad medicine for anything I would think. 

Grizzly bear and ME, in brush, no way!   

      Joe. 

Largest Grizzly Bear ever shot was in the Swan Hills of Alberta with a single shot .22 rimfire. The lady shot the bear seven times in the head.

Guess our native ladies might be a bit tougher than you Joe.

She could have done it with a single shot with a .40-65. Besides a 425 grain bullet (1 oz.) for a .40 caliber is bigger than a 12 Ga slug (5/8 oz).

Squaw kills largest Grizzly with .22 rifle. 1953
 
Then consider a 67-year-old woman named Mrs. Bella Twin who was walking near her home in the Swan Hills of Alberta, Canada a while back, when the largest grizzly bear known to man suddenly reared up on the trail before her.

Mrs. Twin happened to have her rifle with her. It was a .22. Paying no attention to the common belief that wild animals will not bother you if you do not bother them, Mrs. Twin shot the bear with her .22. In fact, she put seven .22 slugs in a tiny circle. It fell over dead. She had killed the biggest grizzly bear of which there were authenticated records (since that time three larger specimens have been shot). Mrs. Twin's grizzly had a skull whose dimensions were verified by the Boone and Crockett Club. It measured 16 10/16 by 9 11/16 inches. Even small grizzly bears have been known to charge people in wild, leaping bounds, covering 10 to 12 feet per jump, so Mrs. Twin was fortunate that she shot the grizzly before it stepped on her.


On a spring day back in 1953, 63-year-old Bella Twin and her friend Dave Auger were hunting grouse and picking berries near Lesser Slave Lake in the Swan Hills of northern Alberta, Canada. As the story goes, they were walking an oil-exploration survey line when they ran into a humongous grizzly bear following the same line toward them. The two feared that if they ran, the grizzly would notice them and give chase, so they hid in a brush pile and hoped the big bruin would pass without any trouble.

Unfortunately for the bear, it was intent on getting its share of berries and came very near Twin and Auger. Frightened by the close encounter, Twin raised the rifle she was carrying and fired. Her aim was dead on. 

I've always thought that the best way to pick a rifle for dangerous game was to choose the one that created the most pain on your end (only fair to the animal, don't you think). I ONCE shot a 8 bore double (1250 gr lead bullet, 250 gr BP), believe me, I wish at I had got something for the pain.

Now you tell me I only need a 22rf?

Frank

Schuetzendave wrote on Dec 10^th, 2013 at 10:14am:


Dave Dave Dave, year before last you teased me that I couldn't beat Canadian women in offhand. Last summer I proved you wrong. Sorry but I'm not wrestling any Canadian woman in the bushes this summer. Not going to happen, Dave.

        Joe. 

Still don't know what sort of fins we ins is supposed to be giving advice for/against.

      Joe.

Could also be those pesky base fins when the sprue plate doesn't sit right.

Guessing we'll never know.   

     Joe.