In your dreams. What if the wind is howling, like it often is in AK? Or pouring down rain, as it often is in AK? Plus, if you don’t know what “charge momentum” is then you better find out before you risk your life on “bear irritant in a can”. Good luck to you………hope all the weather factors are in your favor.
Can a SOCOM 16 Stop a Bear Attack?
- Thread starter Mike H.
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My point exactly. What if it came out of brush at 30 yards
. I think the same way about bears. I want enough hp to thump one NOW
. That typically means big, heavy slugs. Hunting in Tn a few years ago a buddy shot a big boar at about 25 yards and dropped it. He then made the comment “I thought boars were tough”. I said “Moose, you just shot him between the eyes with a .444 300 gr hard cast bullet. Of course he dropped”. Had the shot not hit at that point might have been very different outcome.
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CCJ
Operator
I'd say 223 ain't big enough... looks like you love to liver dangerously. A co-worker went hunting hog with a 44mag. One came out of the brush running right at him. He had time get get a shot off... hit him square just above the eyes and it bounce off the skull. He had time to scamper up a tree. Hog stopped only long enough to asses his pray and then ran off. Last time he ever used a hand gun for hunting.
Elfego Baca
Operator
Last year Bugle magazine published an ad by Vortex that compared a 9 x 19 with a 10mm in hanfguns.
Their 'anatomically' correct grizzley skull was penetrated by heavy buulets from both calibers.
That kind of hit should alter a grizzly's diet!
Their 'anatomically' correct grizzley skull was penetrated by heavy buulets from both calibers.
That kind of hit should alter a grizzly's diet!