discrete northern bear gun for film crews

I would purchase a new Mossburg...run you about $200 with two barrels.

Next, would tear it down, wipe it down with alcohol to remove all of the greas/oil.

Finally, get a couple of cans of rustoleum, lay a couple of coats of primer, then finish up with paint overcoating...after that a yearly touch up with paint will keep her nice.

I like the idea of putting the gun in a plastic bag before entering a warmed shelter, but wonder if you couldn't get a small storage locker and keep it right out the door?

As for recoil have someone cut an inch or two off the butstock and put on a pad to reduce felt recoil..however, if your looking down the jaws of a ticked off bear, I doubt that you would even be aware of the recoil!
 
copstock if I can get it...and the prevention routine

Thanks everybody for your suggestions. Short-loading the extended magazine and then just pushing into the magazine what I want, say a crack-flare shell, or a rubber bullet, and then chambering via the pump, is something I would not have thought of. That also means I only have to learn one loading action, which simplifies things. I have black aerosol rust preventative paint, so that will likely be what I use as a finish.

I have spoken with our chief Conservation Officer, and now know that rubber slugs are indeed legal here. I am still trying to find out if fore-end lights are considered to be poaching equipment.

In the worst of all possible cases, I might have to shoot a bear in a tent at night. This would be after a bear would have had to have smelled our camp, which we work pretty hard to prevent and get by a portable electrical fence. We also fly over the camp access routes during the insertion to look for bears before we land, and look for tracks and sign as well.

Cheers!
 
If you are going into the USA, do not bring in a shotgun with a barrel less than 18"!!! It will get you stopped at the border. They are a no-no without a federal stamp. I would get a one with a pistol grip, and put a lot of oil on it, every nite, you will not have any problems with rust.
Remington makes a good reduced recoil slug, don't waste your ammo capacity with rubber bullets. It will make the bear mad, and you will have less than one more shot in your shotgun, when he charges. If they will not go away by shouting and yelling, they are up to no good. Just think about how long it will take to move that slide and aim the gun, that bear will be on you. Most bush pilots do have shotguns, because it is easy to get the gun across borders, and if needed, besides bear, can be used in a survival situation. In Alaska, airplanes are required to have a gun aboard for this. Load with slugs, and keep a supply of #5 or #6 shot for small game. You never know if that helicopter crashes, and you have to spend a few days in the bush....
 
cross border bear gun

Thanks all for your comments! I agree that anything shorter than 18" will cause problems at the border, and will raise eyebrows in town as well. I am now actively looking on the 2nd hand market. My local store says that 12g slugs are most widely available in 2 3/4" size, so that opens up a lot of used 2 3/4 shotguns.

The idea with rubber slugs is to use them as a medium range (50m/yds) stand-off tool if crack shells (100m/yds) have not worked. It gives me another way to move things along without having to kill the bear. I would be picking these off the butt-stock carrier to load these into the magazine tube, then pumping them into the chamber. Evidently this means loading only 7 cartridges in an 8 shot magazine tube to facilitate loading special rounds.

If I cannot easily get a Cop Stock exported from the US I will likely cut a solid plastic stock to fit, fit the stock with a custom-wielded inside the stock attachment bolt with a hex/slot head, so that I can take the stock off more easily, without tools, for transport. This woul also let me use a buttstock ammo holder, and a slip-on recoil pad.

For the end of the midnight sun in August, I am still looking into the legality of fore-end lights here. I would likely get some sort of barrel clamp for my AA mini-maglite, which already has a very bright, pretty unbreakable LED bulb. My headlamp would do just as well.

Cheers!
 
you can order a SpecOps stock for export to Canada!

All: Thanks for all your observations. You were right that 'all hell' did break loose when I raised this issue on our Canadian Site.

So far, after much research, I have ordered a SpecOps adjustable stock for a Mossberg shotgun. Ca Cruisin, who posts here, was very helpful at Knoxx. He says that they can be exported directly to Canada, under a US Commerce Department export permit, which I have started to do.

Meanwhile, as all the paperwork flies about, I will be looking actively on the Canadian 2nd hand market for a Mossberg 590 maybe even the Mariner, if I can find one with Ghost Ring sights. If I can't get one used, I'll get one new from a mail-order firm, likely the 590A1 for its metal safety and trigger guard.

I cannot easily get gunsmithing done here, so what I get has to be ready to go right out of the box; so far only the 590's will do that.

I went for the adjustable length-of-pull (LOP) stock as in the same subarctic summer day I may be wearing a down vest under a shell jacket and a pile sweater, or just a synthetic T-shirt. It all depends on the sun. Rucksack straps also affect LOP, and with winter clothing, it is even worse.

I found out from a chap in Hudson's Bay, which is polar bear country, that plastic bear-banger rounds have a high mis-fire rate due to black powder absorbing moisture, and then stick in the barrel (!!) so I will not use them. While rubber slugs are legal and costly here, fore-arm lights are not. I have decided to go with a Parkerized finish as a good rust-resistant compromise, with the possibility of re-finishing with Gun Kote later on. If I can find a used Marinecote 590 in Canada with GR sights that would be ideal, but unlikely...



Thanks for your help!
filmbeargun
 
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