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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 286844" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Two years ago was my last hunt on Kodiak Island. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game literature supplied with my permit packet at that time recommended lung shots because they were deadly, and they offered the most margin for aiming error. Fish and Game believes more bears than necessary are being wounded by hunters trying to break the bears down with shoulder/front leg shots, and erring too far forward in their aiming point. Slightly farther back wipes out the lungs and ensures a quickly-expired bear.</p><p></p><p>To clarify my prior posts: my aiming point is just behind the front leg muscle of the bear and mid-height on the ribcage - top to bottom wise. I understand I could move forward into the front leg muscle and bone and still get a killing shot that also has the potential to disable the bear (break the skeletal structure) by breaking bone. However I shoot just behind the leg muscle on a standing broadside positioned bear, just like one would do with a broadhead-tipped arrow (avoiding the bones), and these bears die in short order.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 286844, member: 4191"] Two years ago was my last hunt on Kodiak Island. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game literature supplied with my permit packet at that time recommended lung shots because they were deadly, and they offered the most margin for aiming error. Fish and Game believes more bears than necessary are being wounded by hunters trying to break the bears down with shoulder/front leg shots, and erring too far forward in their aiming point. Slightly farther back wipes out the lungs and ensures a quickly-expired bear. To clarify my prior posts: my aiming point is just behind the front leg muscle of the bear and mid-height on the ribcage - top to bottom wise. I understand I could move forward into the front leg muscle and bone and still get a killing shot that also has the potential to disable the bear (break the skeletal structure) by breaking bone. However I shoot just behind the leg muscle on a standing broadside positioned bear, just like one would do with a broadhead-tipped arrow (avoiding the bones), and these bears die in short order. [/QUOTE]
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