| Ripp |
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| 05/12/21 03:12 PM |
Stopping a Griz with a 220 Swift & Other Frank Glaser Tales
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Stopping a Grizzly with a 220 Swift and Other Legendary Frank Glaser Tales
The .220 Swift was Frank Glaser's favorite rifle for all things except grizzly bears, but at times it had to handle them too
BY TYLER FREEL | UPDATED DEC 3, 2021
https://www.outdoorlife.com/adventure/stopping-a-grizzly-with-a-220-swift/
| Ripp |
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| 05/12/21 03:14 PM |
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Tracking Frank Glaser: Alaska’s Wolf Man
Frank Glaser was a wolfer, an adventurer, and an Alaskan legend. The author follows his boot prints into the wilderness
BY TYLER FREEL | PUBLISHED DEC 3, 2021
https://www.outdoorlife.com/adventure/frank-glaser-alaskan-hunter/
| bwanabobftw |
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| 06/12/21 02:18 AM |
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Ripp thanks for posting. Makes me want to go buy a .220 swift !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robert
| DarylS |
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| 06/12/21 02:53 AM |
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Oh yeah - great grizzly gun! A .22-250 with 26" bl. will do the same.
I had one with a 26" bl.(.220 Swift)that ran 4,030fps with 50gr. Sierras. It wasn't a super hot load, either. Shot well and shot a bunch of ground squirrels with it. Had to shoot slowly due to barrel heat - switched to a .17 Ack. Bee after that.
Much better for the rats.
| Ripp |
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| 06/12/21 02:45 PM |
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Quote:
Oh yeah - great grizzly gun! A .22-250 with 26" bl. will do the same.
I had one with a 26" bl.(.220 Swift)that ran 4,030fps with 50gr. Sierras. It wasn't a super hot load, either. Shot well and shot a bunch of ground squirrels with it. Had to shoot slowly due to barrel heat - switched to a .17 Ack. Bee after that.
Much better for the rats.
I still have one--It's a Cooper single shot with a Leupold VX-3 6-18 on it..incredibly accurate..have mainly used it for prairie dogs.. took it once along with 5 other rifles to a P-dog town a rancher wanted eradicated.. shot over 400 in a afternoon .. town was gone the following spring..
Have to say however, it would not be on my top 10 choices for griz..
| Louis |
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| 07/12/21 08:36 PM |
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Any dangerous game may - by chance and with loads of luck, be taken with any type of weapon or any kind of rifle calibre; Ripp already shared with us some years ago an article about Bella Twin, who in 1953 took a grizzly that is apparently still the world record one with a .22 single head shot!
What stroke me in Frank Glaser’s hunt report was the situation: grizzly charging from a 15 feet distance and 11 shots of .220 Swift required for putting the beast down, which meant that Frank had also over a very short period of intense action to reload his rifle, at least once!
The fact that the bear’s freedom of movement was probably hindered by the trap and log it was dragging in the dense willows possibly changed the deal; if not the hunter may have faced a different fate.
Anyway, thank you for sharing, Ripp; another good story teaching us the recommended do's and don'ts.
Louis
| DarylS |
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| 08/12/21 03:19 AM |
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LOL- reminds me of a hunting day trip with my younger daughter. We were deer hunting, still hunting they call it, walking very quietly and slowly on a trail, stopping often to look around, all directions.
She was armed with her "new" .260 Remington I built her, 129gr. Hornady's at about 2,900fps and I had my Ruger #1 in .218Bee, loaded with 45gr. TSX at 3,080fps.
We walked right into a grizzly's bed room. "Several" beds about 6 feet in diameter, with rings of bear shit piles circling them. That was really weird - 1st time I have seen that. We didn't smell it until we were in it, as we were walking into the wind & relying upon our eye sight, of course.
I felt particularly vulnerable at that time and we re-traced out steps - out of there and more quickly than we had entered.