I am a bit embarrassed by that. We had spotted him from over a mile away. After closing half the distance we started the stalk. My partner was the agreeable little fellow you see in the pic and he stayed back to wait - although I did catch him sneaking behind me a couple hundred yards later. I was basically crawling in coverless tundra and so had only my rifle, a revolver, and my binos. When I topped the "rim" of the shallow bowl the animal was in, I was done. I knew the shot was longer than I hoped, but had nothing left to hide in short of trying to become a snake, something I really didn't want to try on wet tundra. I missed on the first shot, though at the time I thought I had connected judging from the bear's reaction, and the way she "caught on fire." By the time she decided which direction she was going to point herself, I was loaded and ready again and gave her both a lead and just a bit more elevation. She rolled at the impact. She had one pass through hole through her. I heard both bullets strike; the first was apparently just the sound of the bullet hitting the wet tundra. The second was a drier sounding smack which made me think, along with the way the animal dropped, that I may have pasted the head - (I was leading). After retrieving my son and my other gear, I ranged the distance with technology at 246 yards. As I said, I am a bit embarrassed by that as I wouldn't advise that kind of a shot on an unwounded bear and and I would never have taken the running shot nor would I advise such had I known the animal was unscathed after the first.
