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My favorite caliber rifle for bear will be the the one that I use to kill my first one . So far I haven't had much opportunity to kill one. Hopefully I draw for Monroe and tag one. I am working on loading some Barnes TTSX 168 gr match for my 300 WSM.
My first and only was with the Marlin .45/70 lever gun over bait the last year we could (1996) at 25 yards. Very exciting and only needed one shot to the chest, now any opportunity will be with my Model 70 in .30/06 as sadly, the Marlin is long gone.
7mm mag with 160 gr nosler partitions......furthest i had one go after the shot was last spring-he made it 30 yards with his heart shot out (first pic)....after the shot he was bouncing straight up in the air like a frog jumping trying to make the timberline...tried to put another one into him but the only time I could see him was at the top of his jump through the reprod...second pic I shot last fall quartering toward me-bullet went into his left side at the crease of the neck/shoulder and came out his opposite lung...never moved after i touched the trigger. I have a BLR in .358 been sittin in my safe for 13 years that I'd like to work some hand loads for and see how that does this fall.
Quote from: brew on March 16, 2011, 06:49:11 PM7mm mag with 160 gr nosler partitions......furthest i had one go after the shot was last spring-he made it 30 yards with his heart shot out (first pic)....after the shot he was bouncing straight up in the air like a frog jumping trying to make the timberline...tried to put another one into him but the only time I could see him was at the top of his jump through the reprod...second pic I shot last fall quartering toward me-bullet went into his left side at the crease of the neck/shoulder and came out his opposite lung...never moved after i touched the trigger. I have a BLR in .358 been sittin in my safe for 13 years that I'd like to work some hand loads for and see how that does this fall.Did you have the skull measured on that hog?
Quote from: Boss .300 winmag on March 16, 2011, 07:00:02 PMQuote from: brew on March 16, 2011, 06:49:11 PM7mm mag with 160 gr nosler partitions......furthest i had one go after the shot was last spring-he made it 30 yards with his heart shot out (first pic)....after the shot he was bouncing straight up in the air like a frog jumping trying to make the timberline...tried to put another one into him but the only time I could see him was at the top of his jump through the reprod...second pic I shot last fall quartering toward me-bullet went into his left side at the crease of the neck/shoulder and came out his opposite lung...never moved after i touched the trigger. I have a BLR in .358 been sittin in my safe for 13 years that I'd like to work some hand loads for and see how that does this fall.Did you have the skull measured on that hog?not yet....I'm still working with the Taxi trying to get it back....cool thing with him was his front right leg was missing at the knee...had been for some years and it had caloused over and he was getting aroung pretty good without it. am gettin a 1/2 body mount done so looking forward to it...yes he had a real big nugget....laid my hand on top of his head and there were still inches on either side to his ears. don't know how big he will measure but i've since seen some real nice bears and his skull looks bigger than theirs. His was by far the biggest skull I've shot. He wasn't a monster bear body size (prob around 300 lbs) but he had a huge layer of fat on him and sure tates good.
