9.3x57
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The stubby 16-inch carbine is a winner. Kills well and handles like perfection especially in a dense fir and cedar jungle thicket like wear we found the bear.
View from the opposite direction;
Inside the thicket, dogs a-screamin', great day;
A couple great bear rifles;
Worked around a while till we found as good a spot as we could to get a view of the critter;
The shot;
A good one for these parts. Northern {Lower 48, Canucks...  } Rockies blackies are ridge runners and the average boar goes 165 lb's in this state. This one went 240. It was.............a downhill drag!!! 
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Rule303
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9.3 nice going and good shooting. Good pic showing the Marlin and your 9.3X62. Is the Marlin a 45-70?
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FATBOY404
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Good to see you have put the 9.3 "shorty" to use already Rod.
Would be ideal in that tight stuff.
I love the 9.3 and if I were to choose one rifle for everything it would be my choice.
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9.3x57
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Thanks fellows.
Yes, Rule, that Marlin was a .45-70. However, the favored rifle of the houndsmen here is the Marlin .444. They like those fast big light bullets that blow up and stay inside the animal. We worked up a load for the .45-70 that does the same thing, a Remington 300 grain JHP at 2100 fps and it is a bomb on bear.
I actually like the longer bullets of the 9.3, personally, as they give me the advantage of shooting thru branches or the bear's forearm for killing shots on treed bear.
I guess having both in the same mob works.
Here's a well-worn .444;
Blooded my most recent knife, too, a stout job I made from a sawbar;
With an older "Standhauer" for clearing brush and field butchering I also made from a sawbar;
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500Nitro
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Good stuff. Looks exciting.
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DarylS
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Way to go - nice bear. I've never shot them using dogs.
Usually spot and stalk spring or fall or in the grain (rye or oats) fields in the fall - again, spot and stock.
Bears that have been feeding heavily on berries or oats/rye are very good eating - if you like eating bears, that is.
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9.3x57
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This bear had a gullet full of...........bees!
He must have found himself a nice batch of honey and had himself a fill, makers and all!
As usual, the Prvi did its work to predictable perfection. Obviously good expansion and naturally shot thru the critter, too. For our stuff here that Prvi is a dandy.
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