More than one big brown bear has been taken with a 30-30... More than one guy has been mauled while carrying a 30-30 too...

I remember back in the 70's, there was an old timer who lived in the bush and was found dead and mostly eaten. He carriednothing but an old Winchester30-30. The 30-30 had been fired one time and was near by his body.

A couple years later, near that same spot, a guy was charged by a big bear and shot it several times with a 30-06 killing it. When the bear's skull was skinned out, you could clearly see where eariler a bullet had hit that bear in the head and gouged a groove in it, with the bullet slideing over the forehead. There's was no doubt it was the same bear that killed the old fellow... The bear was very old and didn't have much for teeth left, so he took to killing and eating what ever he could get to stay alive.

One of the biggest bears ever killed was shot by a native women who got chased into the loft of her cabin, shooting the bear with a single shot 22lr, killing the bear. She had happen to hit it in the eye at an angle that allowed the bullet to get into the brain. No doubt it was the luckiest day of her life!

DM