Calvin45
Well-Known Member
Good Lord! The hunt was successful and long over and folks are still bickering on this thread???!!! Count me in!!!!
Hearing what quite frankly is a lot of opinionated borderline nonsense about how target bullets aren't okay for hunting or about how copper bullets are better or worse or anything in between…
How the hell did people ever manage to kill anything with round lead balls and blackpowder? Let alone bows and arrows?
I'm glad we've had so much improvement and fully support the eternal pursuit of a better mousetrap. But as I said waaaaay earlier in this dumpster fire…
Oh for crying out loud people we're talking a Saskatchewan black bear, not a polar bear or an alaska/Yukon monster grizz or Kodiak.
People kill them with 30-30s and Winchester power point ammo every year with no trouble or fuss. Y'all have been making a big deal out of nothing.
Whether it's an eld match (oh the horror, a target bullet) or a hammer or a Barnes or a swift or a boring old cheap soft point…shoot a Saskatchewan black bear (maybe they have superpowers in other states and provinces, I don't know, I live in Saskatchewan and have never hunted anywhere else) in the lungs with any "typical" weight bullet of dang near any make (barring FMJs) from about any "typical" all purpose big game cartridge and they're going to get real dead real fast.
I personally do not consider them "dangerous game". At all. Unless the encounter involves me not having a gun haha. But some of you guys are acting like bullet selection matters so much with this kind of hunt, I'd swear you were talking about Cape buffalo or rhinoceros or a polar bear on cocaine
Hearing what quite frankly is a lot of opinionated borderline nonsense about how target bullets aren't okay for hunting or about how copper bullets are better or worse or anything in between…
How the hell did people ever manage to kill anything with round lead balls and blackpowder? Let alone bows and arrows?
I'm glad we've had so much improvement and fully support the eternal pursuit of a better mousetrap. But as I said waaaaay earlier in this dumpster fire…
Oh for crying out loud people we're talking a Saskatchewan black bear, not a polar bear or an alaska/Yukon monster grizz or Kodiak.
People kill them with 30-30s and Winchester power point ammo every year with no trouble or fuss. Y'all have been making a big deal out of nothing.
Whether it's an eld match (oh the horror, a target bullet) or a hammer or a Barnes or a swift or a boring old cheap soft point…shoot a Saskatchewan black bear (maybe they have superpowers in other states and provinces, I don't know, I live in Saskatchewan and have never hunted anywhere else) in the lungs with any "typical" weight bullet of dang near any make (barring FMJs) from about any "typical" all purpose big game cartridge and they're going to get real dead real fast.
I personally do not consider them "dangerous game". At all. Unless the encounter involves me not having a gun haha. But some of you guys are acting like bullet selection matters so much with this kind of hunt, I'd swear you were talking about Cape buffalo or rhinoceros or a polar bear on cocaine