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just to get you fired up for next bear season...
30yd shots over bait, Choices
20ga 2 3/4" 5/8 or 3/4oz Rifled Slug
12ga 2 3/4" 1oz Rifled Slug
12ga 2 3/4" 7/8oz Sabot Slug
12ga 3" 1 1/4oz Rifled Slug
10ga 3 1/2" 1 7/8" Rifled Slug
Just for fun but what would you take?
The red one... with 30 yds a 1" slug with make a nice hole and has plenty of knock down powerQuote:
Originally Posted by 22x11
Why 30 yards... I would choice a rifle at 30 yards. Never know when a bear shows up at last light. If you have to use a slug I would use a saboted slug at 30 yards. More accurate. All 5 choices will harvest a bear if you hit it.
Any of those listed will work, whatever you have confidence in.
30yd is how far the stands are to the bait.
ive got access to lots of rifles 3006 7mm and the like but I like the idea of a challenge.
A slug at 30 yards wont make it any more of a challenge over a rifle. Even with modern archery equipment thats not at all a stretch. Now maybe a patch and ball flinter?? All those slugs = a dead bear.
I hear stories of slugs out to 100 yards.
Any one of those would make a big hole in a bear at 30 yards.
No need for an "accurate" sabot at that range, dumb slugs with a bead sight are generally 2-3in groups at 30 yards, no need to be any better than that.
Oh wait, I meant to say, you cannot kill a bear with a shotgun, you need a 375 H&H as a minimum :)
Strange. I always heard that .50 bmg was minimum for bear? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Fox
With proper bullet construction you can now go down to the 375 H&H, just make sure you are using a Nosler Partition.Quote:
Originally Posted by huntinguy
That's exactly what I use as my backup for my 700 Nitro Express.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Because you never know.
.950 JDJ, I mean come on.
LOL... I say 10ga slug just because it will probably kill on both ends.