I am going to go deer hunting up north this November in a big woods that always has tons of bear tracks in it. I asked my pa what I should do if one of those bears gets hungry and starts drooling on my boots while I'm hunting. He says that a bear's heart beats so slow that it doesn't pay to shoot it in the heart and that he heard that a bullet from a .22 won't make it through a bear's skull. I don't think that I'll have any problems with a bear as I'll be with other people, but now I'm curious as to what to do in such a situation.
I deer hunt with a Savage 30-30 ... pretty small and old, but it gets the job done, & I would never trade it in for anything! The clip can carry 3 bullets; so, I can have 4 bullets in there at a time. One for each kneecap on the bear, right?
I haven't been bear hunting which is why I have no idea about this stuff, and I'm sure that bear hunters use much bigger rifles, but what does one do while carrying only a small rifle during a bear attack?
2007-08-12
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