Black Bear meets 375 Ruger

Gatehouse

Gatehouse

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Yesterday afternoon, I bailed form work early, and on the way home decided to take a look at a cutblock. I turned off the highwway, drive 5 minutes, then disembarked. I was going to hike up and around the back of the cutblock to see if a deer would come out before dark.

As I had stayed in a hotel the night before (wedding) I didn't have much wiht me. I had my 375 Ruger Alaskan, 3 rounds of ammo, my binoculars and not much more.

I started trudging up the old road, and had gone about 15 minutes when I noticed a bear 100 yards away. And it was UPHILL from the road!!:)

A quick glance showed that it was decent, and had very nice fur. Proabbly taste good, too. So I started a sneak, keeping low and using the undulating road to get close. At 30 yards I was crawling up and gettign ready for a final assesment through the scope, wait for a good shot.

At that point he busted me, looked straight at me, while on all fours...It was now or never, so I shot him in the chest.

The 260gr Accubond hammered him hard, he went downin a twitching pile....

Didn't even have my camera wiht me, but he was in a good spot. I ran down, got my truck, backed up right under him, put it in 4x4 and scrunched the rear of the truck into the side of the hill...Mr Bear rolled right in:)


Took him home,roplled him out snapped some pics and started skinning.


Mr Bear:

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If you look on the rigth side, you will see where the bullet ended up- under the skin, after penetrating about 48" of bear..

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Recovered bullet - 196.1gr

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Nice performance from the 375...and the bullet Gatehouse. However that's no surprise, by all the specs on the cartridge there shouldn't have been any doubt that it would do all of which it did.
 
bronco_mudder said:
Nice performance from the 375...and the bullet Gatehouse. However that's no surprise, by all the specs on the cartridge there shouldn't have been any doubt that it would do all of which it did.
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I was surprised..I heard the 375 Ruger was no good, I woudl be foolish to use one. Only H&H and 375-338's need apply!:evil:

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303carbine said:
At that distance I was expecting to see a big exit wound......:p
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Generally, at closer ranges, bullets tend to expand more violently, limiting penetration. Greater velocity= greater expansion which= larger frontal diameter and more bullet weight loss, which= less penetration.

Although with a bonded bullet such as the Accbond, I'd expect similar perfrmance from 30-200 yards...:)
 
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