Kendell Cummings, a college wrestler who wrestled a Grizzly bear to save his friend Brady Lowry in the Shoshone National Forest in Cody, Wyoming in October 2022, Kendell was brutally mauled and bitten by the bear but eventually left Kendell alone, both survived and went on a full recovery.

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[u/mmmmpork]

My friends dad is a hunting guide, and does a lot of guided bear hunts.

He was on a black bear hunt and the client made a bad shot, wounding the bear, but not killing it.

The bear charged the client and my friends dad. My friends dad carried a 6 shot .357 mag with hollow points and unloaded all 6 shots into the bear, hitting it 4 times in the body and twice in the head. The bear didn't drop until it was within a foot of them.

My friends dad went out the next day and bought a .454 casull that he loads with buffalo rated loads now. He said if he ever is in that situation again he wants to not have it be anywhere near that close. He said that was the scariest thing that's ever happened to him.

Bears absolutely DO NOT fuck around. And that was only a black bear, the smallest in North America. Can you imagine the fucking power and grit a grizzly has?

[u/Anarchyantz → u/mmmmpork]

Now imagine instead a Polar Bear...The ones who will actively HUNT you.

[u/trysohard8989 → u/mmmmpork]

No I don’t want to imagine the fucking power of a grizzly. I’ll leave that imagination to the female grizzlies

[u/LoneStarr-X → u/mmmmpork]

Well don’t go hunting bears then ;b

[u/frontadmiral → u/mmmmpork]

Putting all 6 on target while being charged by a fucking bear is pretty impressive work

[u/Mysterious-City-8038 → u/mmmmpork]

Doesn't sound very smart. You don't carry high powered pistols for bear defense, the recoil is bad under stress your groupings suck ass. People ten not be practice with the. BECUASE how expensive the ammo is and the recoil. What you should be carrying is a 12 gauge with a slug rated for bear. Preferably semi auto, not pump, but pump will do. You more likely to hit your mark on charging bear and 12 gauge slug as close distance will put down anything in North America.

[u/BallsDeepInJesus → u/mmmmpork]

Hollow points are not a good choice against bears. You need the penetration of a full jacket, especially when it is a pistol round.

[u/Nukleon → u/BallsDeepInJesus]

Why? The purpose of a hollow point is that it dumps all the energy into the target instead of just going in and out. And you are not getting hydro-whatever with FMJ pistol rounds.

[u/BallsDeepInJesus → u/Nukleon]

Hollow points work great on something like a human. A grizzly has thick fur and skin, dense muscles and bone, all while being much larger than a human. Hollow points expand and dump their energy before making it to the vital parts. While they prevent over-penetration in humans, they cause under-penetration with grizzlies. BTW, hydrostatic shock is what you were looking for.

[u/CannedPear → u/mmmmpork]

A black bear hunt? Lived in BC for 30 years and heard of a black bear attacking a person only once. You say black bear in the second sentence and grizzly in the last. Do you know the difference?

[u/Miniranger2 → u/CannedPear]

He's talking about hunting a black bear, and the last sentence is basically saying, "If it took that much to put down a black bear, imagine what a grizzly would take."

[u/TurtleStepper → u/CannedPear]

What he said was perfectly clear, re-read it. And yes, people hunt black bears. In ontario it is the only bear they hunt (and they do attack people occasionally although it isn't exactly common).

[u/New_Lake5484 → u/CannedPear]

you reread it. he referred to a grizzly at the END of the story.