Loads from YouTube only after you press playForce reset triggers as bear defense: Colion Noir's case
Key points: Force reset triggers bear
- The premise is a widely shared clip of a charging bear taking a hit from a full-power rifle and continuing anyway, which he reads as proof that one good shot is not a stopping mechanism.
- His timing math: a grizzly at roughly 35 to 40 miles an hour covers about 20 yards a second, so a charge from 15 yards leaves about three seconds to see it, believe it and solve it.
- He revisits his own bear-gun progression from a Glock 20 to the FN 510 Tactical, crediting the 510 with 22 rounds, a slimmer grip, a better trigger and a red dot, and replays footage of himself failing to shoot the Glock 20 well.
- His self-criticism is that moving to a gun he shoots better upgraded the hardware while leaving the underlying assumption untouched, that the answer to a charge is one perfect round.
- The proposal is volume of fire from a Rare Breed FRT in a suppressed 300 Blackout Rattler, aimed bursts into a target he describes as too large to miss rather than a mag dump for its own sake.
- He explicitly separates this from his earlier FRT argument, since suppressive fire works on a person doing risk math and a bear does none, leaving only hits and time.
- He raises the hunters' objection himself, that 300 Blackout may not defeat hide, fat and shoulder bone, and concedes he has no field data on it.
About this Drama and Gripe video
Force reset triggers as bear defense: Colion Noir argues that a viral clip of a charging bear absorbing a full-power rifle round and continuing exposes the flaw in his own bear-gun thinking. He walks back through his Glock 20 and FN 510 Tactical choices, admits on camera that he could not shoot the Glock 20 well, and lands on the conclusion that the problem was never marksmanship but round count inside the roughly three seconds a bear needs to close fifteen yards. His answer is a Rare Breed FRT in a suppressed 300 Blackout Rattler, and he invites the hunters who doubt the caliber to say so.
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A bear charged this guy. He had a full powered rifle in his hands. He got a shot off and the bear didn't give a [ __ ] >> I really didn't give a [ __ ] >> man. Let me tell you, I watched that clip about 11 million times and every time I watch it, I keep landing in the same place. The thing that would have actually helped that man is the exact thing half the internet swears nobody has a legitimate reason to own. […]
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