True story in use of pistol grip 12g defender . A bowhunter friend of mine who for the purposes of remaining friends shall be not be named lives in Kitwanga (near Smithers). One hot summer evening while eating supper with his family of young kids and wife he had the back door open open for ventilation with a full length screen door still in place. Suddenly their laugher and chatter(young daughters) was interupted by the sound of footfall and claws on the hardwood hallway floor . They looked up and saw a large black bear who obviously thought he was invited to supper and fullly intened to participate. The screaming and hollering changed his mind and he spun around and raced for the door. He became a projectel with a full length screen door framing his shoulders and dissappeared into the brush behind the house. R-- thinking the bear could be a safety issue with his familly grabbed his 12g Defender with its pistol grip and slugs and found the bear 15 yds up a small hill. Bearing (parden the pun) in mind he had never fired this gun he raised the gun sighted and fired. He said the next thing he knew the lights went out he was lying on the ground had trouble seeing and hurt like hell. Seeing and hearing the bear thrashing around just yards from him , He staggered to his feet picked up and reloaded the gun in a pain filled fog raised the gun , sighted and fired agin. Again the lights went out, on the ground and really hurting like hell did`t know what was happening. When he staggered back to the house the family was terrified as their dad with his bloody face looked like the bear won that round. OK , bear dead, dad cleaned up and still hurting like hell began to put two and two together. Sighting upwards and firing with a pistolgripped 12g slug loaded shotgun , bent arms and a relaxed grip resulted in the gun slamming into his face. The fog induced rerun was terrible.
Thats why I practiced with mine .Thankfully Ron is able to still laugh agout the bear who came to dinner.
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