Black Bear meets 375 Ruger

[DEZ]

Your ignorance is astounding.

For those too daft to understand sarcazm I guess my post would seem ignorant

 

[Gatehouse]

For those too daft to understand sarcazm I guess my post would seem ignorant

Sarcasm is only amusing if it is done well. Otherwise it just sounds ignorant. Like your post.

 

[savagefan]

A tool of the weak.

 

[Omega]

I would have expected more from a 260 grain bullet. I mean it did its job very well and dead is well dead, but that is a damn big bullet in a damn big cartridge and I would have expected an exit.
A couple of springs back my wife smacked a 6 foot black at 100 yards as it was high tailing away. She used her 375 H&H with 270 grain Interlock. The bear was 80 yards and gaining by the leap. It was a hard quartering shot and her bullet went in the left hip and exited on the right side of the chest and then through the right front leg breaking it at the wrist. I'd have like to seen that bullet.
Good job on the bear.
Oh and here in Alberta we don't have to worry about the meat on a bear.

 

[dangertree]

Nice Bear!

 

[Curt]

Oh and here in Alberta we don't have to worry about the meat on a bear.

So you let the meat spoil in the woods? You have to take the hide and not the meat in Alberta, makes no sense to me anyways. I always threw the hide away after I got back to town and took the meat to the butcher. I never did understand that logic. Maybe we should be able to hunt ungulates for strictly trophy purposes as well. Leave the meat to feed the scavengers maybe.

 

[Curt]

Oh yeah. Great bear, congrats. You could not ask for better bullet performance. It expanded and spent all of its energy in the animal, perfect job.

 

[rollingrock]

When the 123 gr Hornady SP broke through the front shoulders of my spring bear and didn't exit, some here bragged about the lack of power of 7.62x39, while none of them realized that the bullet acutally did the job very well by thoroughly expanding within the body. I recovered the bullet from my buck this fall too. The shot was taken at about 100 yards broadside. The bullet also broke one of the deer's shoulder and lodged underneath the skin. That bullet was a 174 gr Hornady Interlock shot from my M44 and retained 148 gr.

 

[Curt]

The bullet also broke one of the deer's shoulder and lodged underneath the skin.

Is that not perfect bullet performance on big game?? Sure, on varmints you may want rapid, violent expansion, but for meat or fur, not.

 

[rollingrock]

The bullet also broke one of the deer's shoulder and lodged underneath the skin.

Is that not perfect bullet performance on big game?? Sure, on varmints you may want rapid, violent expansion, but for meat or fur, not.

So you think two holes in a nice hide is better than one? For the meat part, honestly that 123 gr sp ruins more meat than this 174 gr. But, that also depends on what the bullet hit on its way inside the body. But in both case the deer didn't go far. I think a complete expansion within the body kills faster.

 

[bone-collector]

double post

 

[bone-collector]

So you let the meat spoil in the woods? You have to take the hide and not the meat in Alberta, makes no sense to me anyways. I always threw the hide away after I got back to town and took the meat to the butcher. I never did understand that logic. Maybe we should be able to hunt ungulates for strictly trophy purposes as well. Leave the meat to feed the scavengers maybe.

go re-read the forum rules and :stfun00

many places bear is a trophy hunt and was not that long ago in BC ,if they would have left it alone there wouldnt be as many problem bears in SOME areas were taking the meat is not possible as the bears are wormy from feeding on dead fish, but then you already knew that right?

 

[Omega]

So you let the meat spoil in the woods? .

I don't eat coyotes or gophers either and shoot a hell of a pile of them a year. Bear is no different IMHO.

I always threw the hide away after I got back to town and took the meat to

Now that is breaking the law.