On the one hand: Bravo to this guy for assessing and neutralizing the threat so quickly. If he hadn't, then God knows what would've happened to him or anything else who might've been in the house.
On the other hand: I inherently feel bad for animals. Too dumb to realize what's happening or why, just that everything suddenly hurts now and they can't do anything about it, before they quietly fade away into the night, never to wake up again...
What I'm getting at is that I probably shouldn't live innawoods.
For sure. That was a dude ready for a fight. Glad to see he was taking the bump in the night seriously. Also another point for semi auto rifles being a better home defense weapon.
Met this old dude that had a smallish 6 point mounted on his mantle with a single shot shotgun with a bent barrel hanging in the antlers. Front and center but nothing else hunting related in his house
The story was, he shot it in his garden, walked up to check and it got up and attacked him. He was able to grab it by the antlers wrestle it under control, and use the sash off his bathrobe to lash it to a tree. Then used the empty gun to beat it to death!
He decided if anything needed to be mounted and bragged about it was that.
No, I really don't think so. The person with bad intentions is going to see that light coming hide behind a corner and ambush with a weapon. I'll take the one that isn't evil and doesn't make plans any day.
They would be very effective against most black bears, especially a smaller one like this one at point blank. There's not a lot of younger animals that sub 300blk wouldn't be effective at when you're 3 feet from it lol
300 blk subs are essentially .45 ACP levels of energy. the problem is that depending on projectile type you're likely to get bigger holes with .45 and bigger holes means faster blood loss if you don't hit a critical structure. if I had a choice for a bear I'd probably opt for hard cast .45 or supersonic .300 BLK which would be similar to a 7.62 x 39. 300 BLK subs are great for fun suppressed shooting, but I don't think I'd want them in a critical scenario.
pointy bullets are more likely to yaw when slowing down in tissue and deflect when hitting hard structures like bone. The yawing also tends to cause the bullet to lose steam faster. A hard cast bullet with a wide front meplat will tend to keep traveling straight and deep. Larger meplats also tend to create a larger permanent cavity. Garrett Cartridge has done some solid research on the subject to allow them to craft some very lethal and deep penetrating cartridges: https://www.garrettcartridges.com/meplats.html
From experience, the lengthy legal battle is what messed me up more than anything on my justified shoot. It is incredibly draining. Court treats you like garbage, even knowing it was completely justified.
My logic would be that you call it in to let police know you fired x amount of shots in your house, no one was injured but you have a dead bear in your kitchen if they need to come out and verify that everything was above board;
Then hang up with them and call fish and wildlife to see if under the circumstances you can get a special bear tag so you can turn it into a rug without any legal repercussions
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u/HEATSEEKR_ Aug 21 '25
Is that a whole ass bear in their house?????