slugs for bear hunt

If you are using a smoothbore... use Brenekkes... if you have a rifled barrel I would recommend Remington Core-Locked Ultras or Winchester Platinum tip :idea:
 
what about if its a smoothbore but has screw in chokes do i still look for the slugs that are marked for smoothbore only
 
any slug, within 50yrds, is going to flatline a bear. don;t concern yourself to much with the brand or type. just use whatever is accurate.
 
I would use a slug for a bear, I would even use '00' Buck for a bear. '00' Buck out of a 12 gauge and no smaller. I think this year I'll use my 10 gauge with slugs in it.

Good Luck hunting.

William
 
Why not a rifled choke?
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No reason... Rifled chokes can add some accuracy to Foster slugs and allow you to shoot sabots with come degree of accuracy :?
But they are a marginal device on most shottys and with most slugs and of no benefit for up close and personal bear defence :|
 
BIGREDD said:
Why not a rifled choke?
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No reason... Rifled chokes can add some accuracy to Foster slugs and allow you to shoot sabots with come degree of accuracy :?
But they are a marginal device on most shottys and with most slugs and of no benefit for up close and personal bear defence :|
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Fair enough, rifled chokes certainly are not needed at the range you will be dealing with a defense situation. However the question is about hunting bears, not defending from them.

If you plan to use other loads than slugs in this gun, then I'd highly recommend the mod choke, but for specifically hunting with slugs I'd question that recommendation.
 
Honestly..... I hear about all kind of remarks regarding slugs and bears....
I'd like an opinion from someone who has actually used it in a hunting scenario - or even better- in a defence situation. (against bears, not paper/propane tanks...etc.)

Not saying here that common sense and/orheard word doesn't count. Just I'd like to read from someone who used the slug. What was the bear's reaction? How many yards - travel. Did the bear change course or continued to charge? was the second one necessary? What was the slug looking like after, and shot placement....
any bones hit?

And something more challenging. As most are advocating against buckshot... did any of you use it?

sorry for the HJ
 
I saw the results of several bears taken with fosters... brennekes and regular fosters... and I have killed a bear with Core-locked Sabots at a few feet in a defense situation... nothing to brag about. :roll:
Over twenty years of hunting Big Game with Slug-Guns allows for a modicum of knowledge and common sense with regard to stopping power. :?
 
eltorro said:
Honestly..... I hear about all kind of remarks regarding slugs and bears....
I'd like an opinion from someone who has actually used it in a hunting scenario - or even better- in a defence situation. (against bears, not paper/propane tanks...etc.)

Not saying here that common sense and/orheard word doesn't count. Just I'd like to read from someone who used the slug. What was the bear's reaction? How many yards - travel. Did the bear change course or continued to charge? was the second one necessary? What was the slug looking like after, and shot placement....
any bones hit?

And something more challenging. As most are advocating against buckshot... did any of you use it?

sorry for the HJ
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I have shot a bear with slugs and I have alo witnessed it a couple of times. I have also witnessed buckshot work very well when used by a farmer with a head shot black bear (in that it went rigth down) and also had buckshot fail miserably on a smallish black bear. Heard from 2 relaibe sources (friends of mine) that they had buckshot fail when it mattered. Luckily they had slugs int he rest of the magazine.

Other members of the forum have used buckshot on bears with good effect. There is no question that buckshot can be very lethal if the pellets arrive en mass, at close range.

Slugs tend to work quite well when the rigth spots are hit.

I've never been charged by a bear.

I'm not a sluggun hunter like BIGGRED, though.

Best thing for you to do is get yourself a box of good slugs and buy a bear tag, and shoot a bear. :wink:
 
Only problem I know of with a rifled slug is the accurate range limitation, as compared to any adequate rifle caliber. As long as you accept the range limitation, and are committed to following up any wounding shot with the same range limited shotgun, go for it. Most rifled slugs I've fired get pretty iffy at 50 yards or so, and beyond that, trajectory kicks in, further complicating life. Still, it will reach farther than a bow! And, given if you shoot enough critters, you're gonna wing some of 'em, following up with a shotgun just means if you see ber bruin at 150 yards, you're gonna hafta get closer. 'S okay, but it does increase the odds. And, you absolutely can't leave a wounded bruin in the bushes. Yeah, I know, you aren't supposed to leave any wounded critter in the woods, but realistically, unless the critter is gushing blood a blind man could follow, most wounded game feeds the ravens. So might Teddy, but just in case you hurt him pretty bad, not fatally, a crippled bear is bad news for the rest of us.
 
i would have to agree with GTH go with an approiately ranged caliber ie 30-30 to 303 british, leave the slugs for deer and squirrels
 
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