.22 pistol, as reported here:

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...40#post1612240

Any non-natural noise tends to scare black bears away (bells, whistles, motors, banging metal pipes, shots in the air), but if the bear is hell bent on doing what it's doing, noise won't do jack shit. An old, hungry bear that can't properly feed himself or a sow with cubs will be way more aggresive than most other bears. I've worked way the hell out in the bush for many years and had many bear encounters, every one was scared as soon as I made any kind of noise. Even though it would probably work on a Grizz, I wouldn't want to be the one trying it... when I see one of them, I'd just slink away backwards and come back later to do my work.

I've never bagged one (no desire), but have been hunting with buddy's that have. One was a Grizz up in Northern BC and the others were black bears in central BC. All are are rugs now.
I have managed to get some nice pics of a few of them...they are linked somewhere on the TFP.

Her'e's a good link for some info on kodiak and grizzly bears...now you'll know the difference..Bears

Wow, lots of info. Thanks guys.

ARTelevision, that's one heck of a story, one for the ages. Great pics. I really hope I never have that encounter.

Splck, thanks for the info. Those bears are a bit tricky to tell apart. I don't want to go after a bear, it was more for what do you do if you encounter one etc.

".22 pistol, as reported here"

Yeah because that is all you had, really why even waste your time with carrying extra weight. Little puffs in the dirt caused by a .22 could warn off a young or just curious bear, but when you have something serious, you need to be packing the heat, not a childs toy. like the horn idea above, not a bad idea, much better than a .22, but still i would stick with the .45 hand loaded to your specifications.

For the most part, a Kodiak is near the ocean and rivers eating salmon and berries, and anything else it can find :eek:, while a Grizzly is in the interior, eating berries and whatever else it can grub up (look for the huge purple shit piles;))

cavu - you are correct. that's all we had with us on that trip.

in general, the better armed...the better.

http://www.accuratereloading.com/700ne.html This right here would work... :D might be abit heavy though.

believe it or not...I'd also look into some mace that can hold them off for a bit while you wait for the rounds they've taken to really slow them down...

a bit heavy!?


the bear will still eat you after you die of exhaustion from carrying that thing :lol: