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<blockquote data-quote="meatyrem" data-source="post: 2646732" data-attributes="member: 26633"><p>Wow. Never seen those before. I think those would be devastating stopping power for big bear even if they happened to not hit straight. I personally think the rifling was too slow for it for proper stabilization. </p><p>As for the copper being hollow point they act as typical Barnes copper that expand out so far but still have great penetration. I've used both Barnes slugs and foster slugs of all brands and designs over the years (as that's all we were allowed since I started hunting until recent years) and most if not all lead slugs pancaked and broke apart with very few pass throughs meaning basically perfect broadside whitetail deer lung shot. My point is even deer as small bodied as they are although ended up dead, still devastated the slugs used on them. Not only have I used copper slugs in shotguns I have almost exclusively used them in muzzleloader too and only found two recovered as it was a quartering to or away and hit one or both shoulders. The mushroomed copper slug was not mushroomed all that much larger than the diameter of the slug itself. When it comes to big bear raging in my direction I would not feel overly confident with the all lead slugs especially if hitting bone <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🍖" title="Meat on bone :meat_on_bone:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f356.png" data-shortname=":meat_on_bone:" /> unless maybe it's a form of hardened lead otherwise I'm going to make sure I have something that holds together (copper-bonded) and penetrates well to reach vitals and break bones for stopping.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meatyrem, post: 2646732, member: 26633"] Wow. Never seen those before. I think those would be devastating stopping power for big bear even if they happened to not hit straight. I personally think the rifling was too slow for it for proper stabilization. As for the copper being hollow point they act as typical Barnes copper that expand out so far but still have great penetration. I’ve used both Barnes slugs and foster slugs of all brands and designs over the years (as that’s all we were allowed since I started hunting until recent years) and most if not all lead slugs pancaked and broke apart with very few pass throughs meaning basically perfect broadside whitetail deer lung shot. My point is even deer as small bodied as they are although ended up dead, still devastated the slugs used on them. Not only have I used copper slugs in shotguns I have almost exclusively used them in muzzleloader too and only found two recovered as it was a quartering to or away and hit one or both shoulders. The mushroomed copper slug was not mushroomed all that much larger than the diameter of the slug itself. When it comes to big bear raging in my direction I would not feel overly confident with the all lead slugs especially if hitting bone 🍖 unless maybe it’s a form of hardened lead otherwise I’m going to make sure I have something that holds together (copper-bonded) and penetrates well to reach vitals and break bones for stopping. [/QUOTE]
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