Two grizzly attacks yesterday in the Gravelly Range

[onpoint]

What's the best handgun for grizzly country?

What's better, bear spray or a 455 whiz bang mag handgun?

Thanx, tjones, for reminding all of the eternal www experts debate/debacle.....
Summed up with this excerpt from a report regarding this particular little free for all:


............One of the pair was able to drive the grizzly away with bear spray while it was “on top of” his friend, according to a worker at an outdoors shop the men visited later that day.
the employee, Terri James, said the hunters thought they may have startled the bear as it was sleeping.
“They said he was up and in their face, just right there on them before they even had a chance to really even grab a gun or do anything, which I think is important for people to know,” she told NBC Montana.

The little Ennis MT Shedhorn Sporting Goods counter lady has a firmer grasp of reality and possesses more common sense than a majority of the respondents to "which fill-in-the-blank" bear-whatever threads.

 

[LVelk]

In September of 2017, I was hunting the same area as the hunters that were attacked and I ran in to these tracks. The one set came over the top of a fresh elk track i was following. They were all over a cut thru a long cliff on the south side on Cottonwood Creek towards the top by Black Butte. A forest service had told me they were in the area but i kinda blew it off until I ran into the tracks.

 

[Sytes]

@LVelk bet that had you checking your six - and tuned your hearing up a few notches!

 

[MThuntr]

Another one in the Gravelly's
https://billingsgazette.com/news/lo...cle_8ed3c78c-0eee-5e37-be8f-8f728537b8ce.html