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Dogfish858
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Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear
      26/08/21 03:26 AM

From what I've seen, you may have trouble making a bear stand still when it's dead. Chest shots do work, eventually, but not like it would on a deer. To make a bear die dead you need to shoot it in the head or spine. It doesn't really seem that it matters what you shoot it with; if you don't shoot it in the spine or head, it'll run away, two or three hundred yards, up a mountain, with three shots through the chest, over slash, up a tree, then die. (.308 Win)

Or it'll not know you're there when you shoot and run towards you, necessitating an African moment as two or three people start shooting a running bear thirty feet away. (30-06)

Or it'll run headlong into a deep ravine and die in a creek at the bottom. (7 mag)

Or through the neck, where it just dies. (7 RUM)

That was two weekends, five guns, in British Columbia. FWIW I was the gun that didn't get one!

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Edited by Dogfish858 (26/08/21 03:31 AM)

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* 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8 24/07/21 08:27 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Marrakai   24/07/21 09:48 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear 3DogMike   24/07/21 01:51 PM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear HeymSR20   25/07/21 08:23 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear NitroXAdministrator   25/07/21 06:21 PM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Igorrock   25/07/21 11:34 PM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   27/07/21 09:39 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear JHeath   28/07/21 07:16 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Dogfish858   26/08/21 03:26 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   26/08/21 11:22 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Dogfish858   27/08/21 12:40 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Ripp   27/08/21 02:32 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   08/09/21 10:14 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Ripp   09/09/21 02:21 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   09/09/21 11:19 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   05/10/21 03:58 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear DarylS   05/10/21 08:46 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   08/10/21 11:46 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear NitroXAdministrator   10/10/21 05:37 PM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   11/10/21 04:21 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear 93x64mm   11/10/21 08:21 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Louis   13/10/21 03:37 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear JDL   26/10/21 07:35 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   29/10/21 12:48 PM
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. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Conor_90   23/10/21 01:38 PM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear skeet2atlow8   25/10/21 11:10 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear Dogfish858   08/10/21 12:48 PM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear DarylS   09/10/21 04:46 AM
. * * Re: 6.5x54MS on black bear DonZ   08/09/21 01:48 PM

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