Enjoyed the story. I started collecting Outdoor Life and Field & Stream magazines in the early 70s. I was a kid and that was as close as I would get to hunting until I was an adult. I would read the stories over and over. Pretty sure I remember seeing a write up on this bear way back then.
Very cool! Thanks for posting that, I'd never heard about it. I have seen an old dude kill a 350-lb black bear graveyard dead with one .22 short, though.