"Handgun Hunting Bear Trophy Room"

A beauty taken with a
Thomson-Center Contender.

Awesome Maine black bear.

Another Maine black bear falls
to a Smith & Wesson handgun.

A trophy black bear from
the Maine highlands.

Bob Bledsoe, outdoor writer, with the
bear he took with a S&W 629 DX Classic.
"Maine must have a tremendous number
of bears," he wrote, "The area we were in
just south of Mt. Katahdin obviously had
had an abundant population. There were
tracks nearly everywhere."

Doug Koenig's Maine Highlands bear.

A pair of handgun hunters
and their Maine black bear.

This hunter's Ruger 44 Magnum
took this awesome Maine bear.

Some of our best bear hunters are
women, like this happy handgunner
with her trophy bear.

Handgun hunter with his Maine trophy.

Chris Dolnack of the National
Shooting Sports Foundation and
his Maine Highlands bear taken
with a Smith & Wesson Model 29.

A handgun trophy from
Maine's Katahdin region.

Doug Koenig and Dick Metcalf
after their successful bear hunts.

Roy Jinks and Wayne Betz.

Smith & Wesson Performance Center
President Tom Kelly (standing center)
and friends on a recent bear hunt.

Bear hunters from Smith & Wesson's
Performance Center enjoyed a successful
hunt in the dense Maine woods.