Stopping a Grizzly with a 220 Swift and Other Legendary Frank Glaser Tales

[The Heretic]

Stopping a Grizzly with a 220 Swift and Other Legendary Frank Glaser Tales

The .220 Swift was Frank Glaser's favorite rifle. With it he took countless moose, hunted marauding wolves, and stopped a charging grizzly.

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[The Heretic]

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.

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[Blowgunner]

I read the book "Alaskas Wolf Man" a couple years ago. Boy did he live quite the life! Great stories.

 

[Blowgunner]

One of the funniest things I took away from the book, is the fact this man lived off the land, and made money hunting, and his favorite cartridge was the .220 swift. If you told someone today you were going to go hunt Alaska with a .220 you'd be ridiculed to no end.
I guess critters are bigger and badder these days...

 

[joshkk]

In that story about the grizz, he says he only killed it after the 11th shot.... I wonder what rifle he was using that held that many cartridges or if he somehow had time to reload in the middle of a continuous grizzly charge.

Edit: Article suggests maybe a Winchester Model 70

 

[Zechariah]

Cool story! I was wondering about the reloading aspect on the grizz as well.