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DarylS
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Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.
26/10/13 03:27 AM

If you've hunted much with a side by side or O/U shotgun on upland birds, I doubt very seriously that you would like carrying and shooting them with a Drilling.

At close ranges normally associated with bear defense, a 12 bore loaded with solid slugs (not Foster) or round balls will give you MUCH more power and stopping potential than any small bore rifle - including a .375.

There is NO factory slug available that I would trust for protection from grizzly attack. For that purpose, a solid round ball or bullet as in Ed Huble's "Alliant Steel" 12 bore loads would be my choice - from a rifled barrel. For that purpose, I picked up a pound of Alliant Steel" yesterday. A 12 bore rifle, properly loaded and sighted is a fearsome weapon indeed and is not relegated to bear-spray ranges. Indeed, it is a powerful hunting rifle should be sighted for that purpose.

You want bullet stability for straight line penetration and a smooth bore shotgun may not give that straight penetration. The rifled bore will probably give poor performance with shot - so is only for bullets or round balls for defense and/or hunting.

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Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

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Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	24/10/13 09:57 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	CZ_hunter	31/10/13 08:00 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Grenadier	25/10/13 05:16 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	25/10/13 06:39 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Rell	25/10/13 10:43 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	DarylS	26/10/13 03:27 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	26/10/13 04:01 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	DarylS	27/10/13 03:57 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Claydog	24/10/13 10:50 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	lancaster	25/10/13 04:19 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	25/10/13 06:39 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	fuhrmann	25/10/13 05:16 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	25/10/13 06:13 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Tom_H	25/10/13 11:16 AM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	25/10/13 03:58 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Mike_Bailey	25/10/13 05:19 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Mike_Bailey	25/10/13 05:21 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	Kappa	25/10/13 06:25 PM
Re: Single shot + shotgun vs drilling.	DarylS	25/10/13 02:30 AM

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