Top 2 Firearms for Alaskan Brown Bear Defense
Top 2 Firearms for Alaskan Brown Bear Defense
Chuke lists the top two firearms for brown bear defense in northern climates.
Top 2 Firearms for Alaskan Brown Bear Defense
Chuke lists the top two firearms for brown bear defense in northern climates.
What 12 gauge do u recommend for bear
The two favorit guns i have
4570 is really hard to find been searching for one for 3 months
Why do you hunt bears? Is their meat yummy?
I once killed a bear with a Beretta 92 while camping near Mount Deception. Although it was pretty dark and we were drinking, Steve and I agreed it was a bear. Never did find the bear’s body though, just a human body nearby that had apparently took his own life. I guess life’s funny like that, sometimes.
Living in alaska especially up here in a rural village all you need is a 30-30, 308, or a type of military surplus like 7.62-54R or any cowboy caliber
Pretty good choices Chuke. Here (Saskatchewan) we don’t have brown bears but we have black bears and wolves and the odd cougar. My two rifles of choice are the Winchester 1886 in 45-70 and my Marlin 336 in 30-30. Both are pretty capable but the Winchester is a bit heavy (mine is a 24” Octagon Deluxe) at about 9 1/2 lbs.
What about the Taurus Raging Judge? It shoots a 454 Casul
Great guns!
Look at the camera, please.
I’d use a 45 70 over a shotgun. Those hardcast 400+ grain hardcast are brutal. They kill slugs, 454 cassul, 10mm and 44 magnum. It’s not even close
No need for packing a heavy handgun when you have a 45-70 trapper or guide gun strapped across your chest muzzle down. Quick as lightning and almost as deadly.
450 Bushmaster AR Ruger 10Round Magazine, 41 magnum S&W 4"
My youngest son lives in Fairbanks. I bought him a Henry 45.70.
Cries with my Taurus 66 on my hip and Maverick 88 with 00 buck on my shoukder :.(
Chuke. I have a Trapper. I want to put a scout scope on it. Did you use the rear barrel mount for your scope? I want to figure how to do that.
I got a couple Ruger Alaskans one in 454 Casull and one in 480 Ruger Magnum but bought a Smith and Wesson snub nose in 460 Magnum for bear protection but my real fun hiking or hunting in bear country gun is a clone of the HK 51 with 8 Inch barrel in 308 🙂
Just ordered my Chukes hoodie in forest green, my current ones are getting pretty well worn out lol
When u say brown bear do u mean. Grizzly? I’m from Canada 🇨🇦 so just making sure
There are lots of grizzlies up here and need one for when I’m fishing
I wish in Canada we could carry a pistol while hunting.
500 Magnum with 700 grain hard cast bullets. It would take an elephant down.
I run 50 beowulf AR as my home defense weapon. I guess I would take it against a bear aswell
So Do they Add barrels to those guns? you’d think they’d just make the barrel longer but instead looks like it used to be a 2" revolver with a barrel attached… always wounded that
Thanks for the video. I will be moving from New Hampshire to my spot betrween Willow and Talkeetna this coming Spring/Summer. My intentions include purchasing 45.70, 454 Casull, and a 12 guage shotgun to get me started with preditor defence. Can you point me in the direction of reliable gun stores in my area so that I won’t have to travel all the way down to Anchorage?
I’d go with 12 gauge with slugs and 000 buckshot and .44 Magnum.
I grew up 16 miles from Ketchikan 👍
Stainless is the way to go when you live in a rain forest
One day at a local firearm shop an old man who operated this store for some 30 years, showed me his defense rifle.
It was an AR Platform Rifle Chamber in 45-70Gov. I didn’t ask how he did it. He obviously is a Gunsmith and he built a bunch of different firearms. But that one sticks out as something amazing. He says this is my defense rifle, pulls out the magazine & shows me red ballistic tipped 45-70 rounds.
An insane rifle. They did have the 50. Beowolf also.
It’s a ruger revolver not a pistol, like you said,
Will this work on Bigfoot?
.45-70 fan boy here anyways, But Chuke just confirms that we think alike. Carried an 870 for hiking in Coastal BC (Cascade Mtns) but did not like that balance point on the receiver. Prefer my Marlin GSBL…. thanks for all the information that you put out there…. Peace Be To Journey!
Is the springfield m1a scout squad rifle in. 308 good for Bear defense?
Why burros or Leopold over vortex
I want to know what you do for a living. It seems you’re always sitting on your basement with tons of guns. you drive around in a big fancy truck with its own lift system for your beds what do you do for a living?
Thx this is perfect for Idaho
Will they work on Sasquatch or Dogmen……..
I was looking at the GBL 1985 or the Dark model, you think hunting in Kodiak and other areas i should stick with getting a trapper? I like the SBL but don’t like the high shine finish.
AR45/70…🤷♂️
browning bar 9,3×62
Chuke, serious question; in terms of any rifle why not use something semi auto, short, high capacity with big enough bullets moving a bit quicker like an AK pistol w/ a brace, an AR10 pistol in .308, or AR15 in Beowulf? What are your thoughts?
357mag lever action and 357 mag revolver ,keep life simple. I mean why get hard to get ammo 😒
Which ammo do you use in the 4570 for grizzly bear defence?
Good video. Nice choices, but I have to admit that I traded off my Ruger Toklat in .454 several years ago. Guess I’m just a "recoil wimp" with some guns, because that thing really stung my hands badly, more so that about any other big caliber handgun I’ve "enjoyed." 🙂
I keep hearing about aiming well but no one clarify’s that. Show how and where to aim. Thanks
Hey Chuke are you still on the road how are you?
Great advice, great weapon. Also can’t beat the good old 30 06 220 grain, take out anything. Then, they say an Eskimo woman got a polar bear with one shot out of a ar15… I guess it’s a lot about about shot placement.. I have heard some Alaska bear hunters use a Barrett 50 caliber… That would do it !
I live in Siberia and I kill polar bear with ax ….
Is that scope mounted on the rear barrel site dovetail?
.450 Marlin scout rifle was my favorite until I built an Bushmaster .450 AR. Loaded with 20 + 1 in 325gr hornady slugs I feel is the modern option
I don’t have the balls to pull a gun on a bear unless it was a life or death, last chance for survival, scenario. Because if this things fails….
.44 magnum or 10 mm. Bear spray as primary. But more than likely if you’re lucky you’ll get maybe one shot as someone who has been charged multiple times you really don’t have time to react so no matter what you carry have it ready and please practice practice practice at your local gun range. Everybody has an opinion but when it truly happens you’ll be so fascinated by how fast these animals can be on top of you you won’t even have time to reach for your gun if you’re lucky maybe and I hope no one has to experience it