My friend shot a nice grizzly with a 6.5x55 (M/38) from about 50 yards. The bear stood up on its hind legs to survey the situation - the brush was about waist high - and the shot went straight into the chest. The bear turned to run away while dropping and made it less than 50 yards before giving up the ghost. The ammunition was cheap Privi Partisan soft point.
A couple of questions come to mind: 1)What is a "nice grizzly", and 2)What if that grizzly had been big and tough enough to drop down and come for the hunter, 50 yards away, since the bear was in waist-high brush that would have posed a possible serious threat to the hunter, no?
It was just under 7', if memory serves me right. Yes, it would have been a problem, but it wasn't because the bear was basically dead on its feet due to being hit in a good spot with the first shot.
Most mountain grizzly aren't really that big, and even when you get into the coastal regions of BC an 8.5' bear is a really big bear.
