I agree with the others. I lost a bear 5 years ago that I had shot at with a 270 loaded with a 140 grain Barnes bullet. It was a little over 100 yards, just about broadside, and in a clearcut. The bear showed no sign of being hit and walked off into some thick reprod. We found the tracks and followed them as far as possible and spend quite a long time searching for blood. There wasn't the tiniest drop to be found anywhere. So finally I assumed it had been a clean miss, especially knowing that not much will stop a Barnes bullet, and so there had to be an exit hole, and with that there should be a blood trail if the bear was hit.
My brother was out there a couple weeks later and had his dog along. The dog got the scent of something and went right to what was left of a dead bear, which wasn't much. It was apparently nothing but bones and hair scattered all over. This was only about 100 yards from where I had shot the bear. So at least the bear did not go to waste. Coyotes and I believe other bears made a meal of it. And I learned that I should not have assumed the bear wasn't hit just because there wasn't a blood trail.
