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<blockquote data-quote="Ian M" data-source="post: 97290" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>Many years ago I was traveling along a logging haul-road and saw a beautiful black bear up ahead some distance. The area had some serious poaching problems so I thought I would scare the bear away from the road. Got out and dumped an '06 round into the gravel ridge on the side of the road about two or three feet from where he stood. The bear walked over to the bullet mark and sniffed at it. I drove up to him and he ran to the edge of the right of way and stood behind a big pine tree. Looked around back at me. Got out, loaded the rifle and shot about a foot over his head. Bullet passed through the tree, I could see bark and tree-innards sprayed all over that bears head and shoulders. He just stood there for about another 1/2 minute, then wandered off into the forest.</p><p></p><p>I have also seen animals take incredible punishment from good body hits when they were "adrenalized". Elk are particularly hard to drop with chest shots if they are rev'd-up. Same deal with moose and they did not run nearly as far. Best to go for the nervous system and get them on the ground.</p><p></p><p>Shot an antelope one time with a Sako .338 Win. in a terrible wind. Needed him for a biological sample, so just kept holding higher and more into the wind. He gave me six shots, so far out he did not move. Seventh flattened him - I was holding entire critters up and into the wind. All that shooting did not bother him at all. This was before lasers and scopes with turrets, he was about a half-mile according to the fences, no idea what the actual distance was but it was way out there. Believe that wind really busts up the sound of the bullet and rifle report. When we shoot steel if the wind is coming towards us the sound is very clear, if the wind is going away we sometimes cannot hear any hits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ian M, post: 97290, member: 25"] Many years ago I was traveling along a logging haul-road and saw a beautiful black bear up ahead some distance. The area had some serious poaching problems so I thought I would scare the bear away from the road. Got out and dumped an '06 round into the gravel ridge on the side of the road about two or three feet from where he stood. The bear walked over to the bullet mark and sniffed at it. I drove up to him and he ran to the edge of the right of way and stood behind a big pine tree. Looked around back at me. Got out, loaded the rifle and shot about a foot over his head. Bullet passed through the tree, I could see bark and tree-innards sprayed all over that bears head and shoulders. He just stood there for about another 1/2 minute, then wandered off into the forest. I have also seen animals take incredible punishment from good body hits when they were "adrenalized". Elk are particularly hard to drop with chest shots if they are rev'd-up. Same deal with moose and they did not run nearly as far. Best to go for the nervous system and get them on the ground. Shot an antelope one time with a Sako .338 Win. in a terrible wind. Needed him for a biological sample, so just kept holding higher and more into the wind. He gave me six shots, so far out he did not move. Seventh flattened him - I was holding entire critters up and into the wind. All that shooting did not bother him at all. This was before lasers and scopes with turrets, he was about a half-mile according to the fences, no idea what the actual distance was but it was way out there. Believe that wind really busts up the sound of the bullet and rifle report. When we shoot steel if the wind is coming towards us the sound is very clear, if the wind is going away we sometimes cannot hear any hits. [/QUOTE]
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