slugs or buckshot for bear or hog?

You cant argue the effectiveness of buckshot on bear without having actually used it on a real bear. Yeah maybe 8 rounds of buckshot will stop or mutilate a bear but the average number of shots someone gets off during a bear charge is 1 to 2. The bear isn't going to sit there and let you unload 7 or 8 rounds into it. Like I said before I've shot a bear broadside in the vitals with hardened magnum 00 and it only made him flinch. I wouldn't be willing to take that risk again. Also people have this idea that if they're loaded with buck they can just point and shoot and they'll hit anything and everything in the general area they're aiming at. You still have to be a good shot to be effective with buck.
 
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I don't think you will have a human threat problem with coyotes unless it is rabid. Either would work on them. I have killed one with # 6 shot but it was close range and not attacking me. I agree with slugs for bear and/or wild hogs.
 
"but cmon guys some of you are making it seem like 00 Buck is basically throwing a rock at the bear."

That's correct. A tiny handful of little rocks.
 
While buckshot is just fine for erect bipeds or more slightly built game like deer at short ranges, the extra penetration needed with bears and feral hogs due to their bone structure and anatomy calls for slugs. While a foster slug might work OK, my preference would be for a harder slug like a Brenneke Black Magic Magnum.
 
It is a bad joke involving the bear placing the pistol in a region of the body that most people would be uncomfortable with.
 
If you have a smooth bore barrel, I'd go with 00 buck shot in the chamber, followed by 3" magnum slugs. The 00 would most likely turn them around, the slugs would do the killing if it were necessary.
 
Hollow point slugs will do the trick. Then regular slugs, then run for your life :) 00 buck couls work as long as it is a magnum load. I.E. Magnum powder and primer.
 
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