tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post5032101317131102411..comments2024-03-28T02:11:54.900+10:00Comments on GUN WATCH: Realistic Bear Defensive Shooting Drillsjonjayrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363092874281160320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877849.post-55341701350816964162022-09-26T11:18:11.948+10:002022-09-26T11:18:11.948+10:00Hello, Mr. Weingarten.
I have a potential additio...Hello, Mr. Weingarten.<br /><br />I have a potential addition to your “handguns vs. bears” statistics.<br /><br />The case was happen on 29 May 1928 north of Svalbard, during the failed Italian Arctic expedition led by Umberto Nobile. It was a very famous case. It is well documented. On 25 May 1928 airship “Italia” crashed on the ice, there were 9 survivors (from the crew of 16). They had only one gun: a Colt .38 revolver. After 4 days of the ordeal one of the survivors Finn Malmgren (despite his left arm was broken during the crash) managed to kill a polar bear with three shots from this revolver. It provided meat allowing the others to hold out until the rescue (unfortunately, Malmgren was the only who survived the crash but perished before the help had come).<br /><br />Primary source: “Umberto Nobile And the Arctic Search for the Airship Italia” by Garth Cameron.<br />Chapter 6 “Red Tent: 25 May 1928–6 June 1928”, available in preview:<br />https://www.google.com/books/edition/Umberto_Nobile_And_the_Arctic_Search_for/6b40DwAAQBAJ/<br />Description of the situation; declaring the revolver was the only firearm left with the survivors (except the flare pistol); identifying the revolver as “Colt”; description of the confrontation with the bear and its killing.<br /><br />Secondary source: “Ice Crash” by A. McNee. Unfortunately, I couldn’t found a full text. Only a declared quote from the book, on this forum: https://singleactions.proboards.com/thread/29145/words-on-polar-bear<br />Representation of the guns on board of the airship prior crash (3 rifles and 3 revolvers); declaring the caliber of the revolver was .38; more about confrontation and killing the bear.<br /><br />In 1969 a fiction movie “The Red Tent” about this expedition was filmed. It is VERY BARELY based on the real events so it couldn’t be considered as a documental source (for example, the revolver in the film initially was a Reichsrevolver M1883, but later it transformed off-screen into something looks like Colt Official Police).<br /><br />Sorry for my English. It’s not my first language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com