29 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Those Po, Po, Poley Bears”

  1. These have to be fake polar bears. Real ones should have drowned by now due to “climate change”.

  2. Just wondering out loud, what would be a sufficient caliber to take out one of those if it gets too close for comfort. 7MM Rem Mag? .300WINMAG? Or should one be looking at .338 options?

    1. I read an article years ago about an Inuit who was hunting on the ice. A polar bear came towards him. He shot the bear several times and the bear caught him and killed him. The bear died from its wounds and when examined later it was found that the hunter had put at least one round right through the bear’s heart, and the bear still caught and killed him. I think the biggest caliber possible would be a good idea.

      1. Heard the same story about some guy doing a geological survey. Went missing. Friend found him dead along with a polar bear. Apparently (this is a while ago) the man had one of these short carbines used to hunt buffaloes, something in .45 or .50 caliber, a lever-action repeater. I’ve heard this question before when people talk about survival kits for the arctic. Anyways, I’m pretty sure whatever rifle you have to carry to blow away an adult male polar bear, it’s too big to be practical. The Rangers in the Canadian North are equipped with .303s, so I guess they make due with that. And being smart and leaving the frigging beast alone.

        1. After some thought about this I believe it was in Reader’s Digest. I think that could found.

    3. The Inuit will hunt them with what they have, which may include .223Remington because they like the light recoil. Not very reassuring when a bear is hunting you back, but if they have dogs to divert its attention, and/or snowmobiles to keep themselves out of reach, it’s enough.

    1. Polar Bears are not really Land Animals. My understanding they are classified as Marine Animals and have been monitored swimming a Hundred Kilometres or 60 miles.

      1. I have read that they can swim up to two hundred miles and run as fast as 40 miles an hour. they are a formidable creature.

    2. I think there was another bombing or explosion recently in an Indian restaurant in Toronto somewhere. That one caused a big fire. It was about 2 months ago.

      1. Looks like someone put a Bomb in Bombay. I am not convinced though, could be just a case of explosive diarrhea. That food looks and smells the same on the way in as out.

  5. White bears don’t discriminate when it comes to eating meat. They are also willing to shag a brown bear given the opportunity. And yes, they do use arctic hairs to wipe their arses as shit does stick to rabbit fur, or what would be the point?

  8. In the old days (before firearms ) the native guys killed them with a spear. Dogs were used to provoke a charge and the spear end was placed in the ground. The bear empalled itself.
    It took guts to utilize this tactic. You missed your mark and things went wrong very quickly.
    The south American natives used this same method to kill jaguar.

    1. I also heard that in the old days, they would take a piece of whale bone (I think it was whale because it’s quite flexible) sharpen both ends, roll it up and then roll some meat or blubber around it, tie it up with some thongs and set it outside to freeze. When frozen they’d remove the thongs, head out to where the bears were and drop them on the ground. The bears would swallow them, they would thaw in the bear’s stomach and the bone would spring open, slashing the innards and the bear would suffer a long, agonizing death. Safe and effective.

  9. Go to the 20mm Anzio. I would say, you would be guaranteed to survive any encounter with polar bears, light armored vehicles, …

  10. Few years back, friend brought out his 460 Weatherby Magnum to ‘play’. You wanna be well set when handling that baby! It would stack up well against Poley…. if you can afford the ammo!

  11. A .600 Nitro Express is what you need for polar bear.

    Quote from Wikipedia – apparently the army in WWI had 4 of them – “Stuart Cloete, sniping officer for the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, stated “We used a heavy sporting rifle – a .600 Express. These had been donated to the army by big game hunters and when we hit a plate we stove it right in. But it had to be fired standing or from a kneeling position to take up the recoil. The first man who fired it from the prone position had his collar bone broken.”

  12. That big bore stuff kills at both ends. Detached retinas, separated sternums not to mention hearing loss.
    nothing beats a well placed first shot

    1. Between the eyes would seem best …

      PS … I am simply ashamed of all you right wing animal-haters for morphing an uplifting story about improving Polar Bear populations … into a discussion about how to KILL a polar bear. Shame on you … humans … for delighting in KILLING animals. Ohhhhhhh mammmmmma … {sarc. off}

  13. The native guys sell the hide/skull etc. They like small bore as it does little damage. .223 is cheap ammo and readily available.

  14. When fishermen share the shoreline with fishing polar bears they all have shotguns loaded with slugs strapped across their backs. A 12 gauge slug is .69″ in diameter and fly with 1700 to 2400 foot pounds of energy.

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