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Shot placement for black bears.
billythekidrock:
--- Quote from: Airnip on June 18, 2009, 08:07:39 PM ---Tried for quite a while to copy the picture in this old post from another forum. It is a target picture of a bear's heart and lungs from facing front. Maybe someone else could have better results getting this shot placement guide here?
http://www.marlinowners.com/forums/index.php/topic,30878.0.html
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This one?
Airnip:
That would be it. Seems much better than the "Bear Attack" book's crecent shaped necklace picture. Thanks again.
Huntbear:
From that pictures angle, you are already about to be lunch, because you are on your back on the ground, and the bear is giving thanks for food!!!! :chuckle:
Billy, awesome write up. Thanks, it will come in handy as soon as I can find a bear after Aug. 1.
bearpaw:
I have to pieces of advice on shooting bear....
1. Try to break a shoulder and get the lungs with your first shot.
2. If the bear starts to get back up shoot him again until he stays down.
Every time I violate those rules it seems I regret it. This spring a guy shot a bear and it went down, it was getting up and moving around some, he was going to shoot again and like an idiot I said "I think he's gonna die." The guy hesitated and the bear got up and made it out of sight in a split second. I found blood in a half dozen places as far as a couple hundred yards away and then as usual it dried up. I still regret that remark. We shot another bear two days later but I do not like anything to get away wounded. Through the years this has happened a few times, if we would have just put another round in them it would have been for the best.
SHANE(WA):
Always shoot till down and not moving. Better take both lungs or kiss the bear goodbye. Bear can survive on a collapsed lung. I shot a bear years ago that just dropped rolled 10 yards and came to rest againt a tree, motionless for 5 min kept watching nothing. Bear appeared to be dead, started to pack up and make my way over and bear is up going down the hill, dragging a shoulder. Never saw the bear again
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