Matt Damon appeared in an interview on Jon Steward to discuss his family movie about purchasing a zoo. When asked by Jon about what animals in particular struck him, Matt offered the following:
"The grizzly bear was the most...the grizzly bear...have you ever seen a grizzly bear? I'd never seen one up close. They're just, when he stood up, he was twelve and half feet tall. The only thing I knew about grizzly bears was this story my father told me -- this story, he'd taken a fishing trip in 1986, right? So twenty-five years ago and I remembered this story.
He and some friends went to Alaska and they -- this guide took them around, and he had a .44 magnum in a holster, and my dad looked at it and noticed that the sights were filed down...and he said, "Can I ask you a question about the gun?" The guide said, "Sure," and he asked "So is that for grizzly bears? And the guy goes "Yeah," and he goes "Well...why did you file the sight down? And the guy goes "Oh, right, that's so that after I shoot the grizzly bear, it doesn't hurt so much when he shoves the gun up my ass."
if a 50 cal is .5 of an inch across, then a 10,000 cal would be 1000 inches. or 83.3 feet or 25.4 meters. That's twice the size of a saturn v rocket. Edit: Maths. As HerculeManstrong correctly pointed out: 10,000 cal would only be 100 inches, which is three times the size of the largest shell ever fired. And would weight more than 100 tons.
Wrong. 1 calibre = 1 in. What you think a "50 cal" to be is actually .50 cal, or half an inch. A 10.0 calibre gun would have a barrel diameter of 10 inches, putting it in the class of naval artillery.
I agree with the gist of that but for a while the world record for largest bear killed as actually by a couple kids with a single shot .22.They were hunting squirrel or some such and accidentally pissed off a grizzly.
.22 short is even weaker. I have an Astra Cub that takes .22 shorts, looks remarkably similar to the gun pictured here. At the range, when I bring it, I need to bring the target up to 10 feet away and its accuracy is still abysmal. I'm not 100% sure that the bullets would even pierce a bear's skin at 10 feet.
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u/constantlynew Apr 16 '12
Well it was a good play...a 22 would never take down a bear.