Gary Reeder
I would wait til he turns his head and put a round at
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 16:29

the base of his ear. It has worked on Black Bears and with the right round (no lead or hollow point round) should work on a Grizzly or Brown Bear.
After problems putting Grizzlys down with hard cast lead bullets, George, the head man, banned all lead bullets. I saw a big bear hit with a 445 grain hard cast lead bullet just behind the front leg from a 510 GNR and the bear ran off. I was taking a video of it and was standing behind the shooter. In the video you see the bullet hit the bear just back of the front leg and go all the way thru and hit the water behind the bear. The bear was standing in about 2 feet of water when he was hit. The bear ran off and we never saw him again. We tried tracking him for several hours but no trace of the bear. George said he had the same problem with other hunters using lead bullets.
He said the bullets just pushed a column of air in front of it and the bullet didn't do any internal damage. The heavy hide plus probably 2 inches of fat slowed the bullet down enough that it did no internal damage.