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I found new information about the bear referenced by Ron White.
The 7mm part of the routine bugged me.
Turns out it was 7mm Remington Magnum, and a semi-auto rifle not a revolver.
The bear tared out at 1,600 lb., so it's ST 23 not 21.
It absorbed 12 rounds, total of 7mm Rem Mag.
7mm Rem Mag does 7d+2 pi. Average roll is 26. 24 penetrates for 24 points of damage per shot on average with FMJ. A soft-point would do 7d+2(0.5) pi+. The average roll would get 20 to penetrate for 30 damage.
The only semi-auto I can find that has more than 5 shots that's chambered in 7mm Rem Mag is an AR10 derivative from Great Lakes Firearms & Ammunition, the GL10. There's a lot of red flags with the story, see below...
Because of the recoil (Rcl 4), prolly gonna take one shot per round and not the full 3.
BALL
First shot drops the bear to -1 with a consciousness roll and half move and dodge.
Second shot drops it to -25, consciousness roll and death roll.
Third shot drops it to -49, consciousness roll and death roll.
Fourth shot drops it to -73, consciousness roll and death roll.
Fifth shot drops it to -97, consciousness roll and death roll.
Sixth shot drops it to -121, auto-death.
HOLLOW POINT
First shot drops the bear to -7 with a consciousness roll and half move and dodge.
Second shot drops it to -37, consciousness roll and death roll.
Third shot drops it to -67, consciousness roll and death roll.
Fourth shot drops it to -97, consciousness roll and death roll.
Fifth shot drops it to -127, auto-death.
Clearly our ranger rolled below average on his damage dice, and appears to have missed a few times with the first magazine.
Oh, and it's appropriate that I GURPS'd this all up because it appears to be an internet hoax!
According to Gaber and department records, the bear was shot Oct. 15, 2001, on Hinchenbrook Island at the mouth of Prince William Sound, by 22-year-old airman Ted Winnen from Eilson Air Force Base.
Winnen was deer hunting, but bear season was also open. He and a friend spotted the bear fishing along a river about 40 yards away. They decided it was a shooter, but the bear disappeared in the underbrush. It had not seen or smelled the hunters. It reappeared about 10 yards away. Winnen shot it through the head with a .338 Winchester Magnum (not a 7 mm mag.) and bowled it over. He then emptied the rifle into its vital area to make sure it was dead. It did not charge the hunter(s) as was claimed.
Official records showed that the bear was an Alaskan brown bear and measured 10 feet, 6 inches from head to toe and weighed an estimated 1,000-1,200 pounds. It was a nice, trophy brown bear, but it wasn’t 12½ feet at the shoulder and didn’t weigh 1,600 pounds. Nor was it even close to breaking the world record.
1,200 lb is back to 21 hit points. .338 Win Mag does 8d pi. That's an average roll of 28.
I'm going to assume that "through the head" means a skull shot, so 24 penetrates for 96 points of damage, dropping the bear to -75 in one shot. That's one consciousness roll and three death rolls, and clearly the bear did not make one of them (a total of 59% to make all three death rolls is, of course, not a sure thing).
The real account still GURPS!
