Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXI
The bear hit the ground, Orrah said she moved like lightning and was roaring like thunder. It seemed like slow motion as he got his 763 German Mauser pistol out, he steadied the pistol on her as she was coming forward, aimed below her head and shot her through the heart. She turned and ran about fifty feet and fell. She was left for the carrion. Violet was glad as they had to eat bear in the early years of their marriage and it didn’t appeal to her at all. In the spring of
