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<blockquote data-quote="Raudy707" data-source="post: 2604160" data-attributes="member: 105681"><p>I guess I've had opposite experiences with both the bears and the bullets. Black bears in my neck of the woods, and I haven't killed 100's, but somewhere in the two dozen count have all been pretty tough to kill on the spot. They have all ran some distance before expiring and a few had me catching up and using a finishing shot to kill. Not as tough as an elk but much tougher than a deer. Nosler Ballistic Tips actually worked very well on the bears we've taken over the years. I've taken half a dozen 300 lb bears with a 115 Ballistic Tip from a 25-06 and 257 Roberts. One shot kills, short track jobs. Under 100 yds. The ones we've had the most trouble with have been since we've switched to lead free here in California. We needed 3 shots from a 6.5 Creedmoor with 130 grain factory Federal loads despite the first shot being shot higher in the crease. Seems the shot only clipped a lung. Tracked him another mile and finally got a few more in him to end the saga. Next one was 6.5 PRC 127 LRX. Shot looked good but again the bear ran 400 yds. We tracked minimal blood, mostly fresh tracks and disturbed leaves and earth to find him sneaking into a big chamise patch I assume to die, but one more in the head neck junction put him down for good. These aren't huge bears. Avg is 250 to 300 lbs. But easy to kill they are not. We hunt spot and stalk and shots are 50 to 400 yds. I've seen the 115, 130, 150s and 168 Ballistic Tips all kill bears with one shot. Very effective. But they all still cover some ground 50 to 100 yds in violent fashion. Brush and dirt flying branches breaking dust and debris flying in the air. Hell a few have turned into a Tasmanian devil from looney tunes and spun themselves 30 or 40 yds before dying. I sure as heck wouldn't want to be in their path to their "easy" death. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raudy707, post: 2604160, member: 105681"] I guess I've had opposite experiences with both the bears and the bullets. Black bears in my neck of the woods, and I haven't killed 100's, but somewhere in the two dozen count have all been pretty tough to kill on the spot. They have all ran some distance before expiring and a few had me catching up and using a finishing shot to kill. Not as tough as an elk but much tougher than a deer. Nosler Ballistic Tips actually worked very well on the bears we've taken over the years. I've taken half a dozen 300 lb bears with a 115 Ballistic Tip from a 25-06 and 257 Roberts. One shot kills, short track jobs. Under 100 yds. The ones we've had the most trouble with have been since we've switched to lead free here in California. We needed 3 shots from a 6.5 Creedmoor with 130 grain factory Federal loads despite the first shot being shot higher in the crease. Seems the shot only clipped a lung. Tracked him another mile and finally got a few more in him to end the saga. Next one was 6.5 PRC 127 LRX. Shot looked good but again the bear ran 400 yds. We tracked minimal blood, mostly fresh tracks and disturbed leaves and earth to find him sneaking into a big chamise patch I assume to die, but one more in the head neck junction put him down for good. These aren't huge bears. Avg is 250 to 300 lbs. But easy to kill they are not. We hunt spot and stalk and shots are 50 to 400 yds. I've seen the 115, 130, 150s and 168 Ballistic Tips all kill bears with one shot. Very effective. But they all still cover some ground 50 to 100 yds in violent fashion. Brush and dirt flying branches breaking dust and debris flying in the air. Hell a few have turned into a Tasmanian devil from looney tunes and spun themselves 30 or 40 yds before dying. I sure as heck wouldn't want to be in their path to their "easy" death. 😉 [/QUOTE]
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