filmbeargun
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All: I am putting together a bear gun over the winter, so I wonder what the consensus is for 12g slugs from a smooth bore 18-20inch barrel for immobilizing a Grizzly or Polar bear by breaking major bones?
This is for close-range defensive use only, (less than 25M/yds) a very different task than bear hunting from a distance.
Evidently, good preventative measures like smell signature control, bear-proof food containers, perimeter electric fences and alarms and choice/use of terrain, crack flares and bear spray (OC), and using rubber slug to discourage curious yearling bears at 50M/yds, mean that shooting a bear is unlikely, but if I have to, what are the best slugs to use?
I have heard of Brenneke slugs, but I am unsure exactly what this means...
I will be using slugs in a 6 or 8 shot Mossberg 590 or 590A1, with Ghost Ring or red dot sights, as that is what I am shopping for now, second-hand, in Canada.
I am importing a Knoxx SpecOps stock to ease the pain of all this, so shooting 3" slugs may also be an option.
Any cartridges you reccommend would have to be available off-the-shelf locally, as shipping costs are very high here, in North-West Canada, North of 60.
I really need to know what people are using!
filmbeargun
This is for close-range defensive use only, (less than 25M/yds) a very different task than bear hunting from a distance.
Evidently, good preventative measures like smell signature control, bear-proof food containers, perimeter electric fences and alarms and choice/use of terrain, crack flares and bear spray (OC), and using rubber slug to discourage curious yearling bears at 50M/yds, mean that shooting a bear is unlikely, but if I have to, what are the best slugs to use?
I have heard of Brenneke slugs, but I am unsure exactly what this means...
I will be using slugs in a 6 or 8 shot Mossberg 590 or 590A1, with Ghost Ring or red dot sights, as that is what I am shopping for now, second-hand, in Canada.
I am importing a Knoxx SpecOps stock to ease the pain of all this, so shooting 3" slugs may also be an option.
Any cartridges you reccommend would have to be available off-the-shelf locally, as shipping costs are very high here, in North-West Canada, North of 60.
I really need to know what people are using!
filmbeargun