Originally Posted by ClearAirTurbulence
Originally Posted by Trystan
When the bear continued to aggress I shot the bear in the head with a 270 and it immediately stopped moving.


Great post Trystan. Thanks for sharing this good first hand info. Question about the .270 though. Was it scoped? At what range did you shoot the bear in the head?

Having once killed a pig at a range of eight feet with a scoped .30-'06 I will admit to not having seen the pig very well.


The 270 was scoped with a leupold 6X42 but I didn't use the scope. I was several feet from the bear when I pulled the trigger. The brush was thick and I had taken a different line thru the brush than Chuck and Steve so was slightly off to the side. As the bear lunged toward Chuck and Steve he landed in the brush right next to me. I stuck my barrel thru the brush less than a foot from the bears head and pulled the trigger.

Good bullets properly placed always work, but not everyone knows what good bullets are, or can reliably place them in the field