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Are the .338s becoming pointless?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 1981149" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>I've seen it both ways with brown bear, and it can be dumbfounding. </p><p></p><p>A bear that's sleeping, relaxed, and unaware of your presence? They will sometimes flop like a deflated balloon, provided the first bullet hit has substantial energy release and is well placed in the chest cavity.</p><p>A bear that's high strung, scared, mad (as in sow with itty bitty cubs, or a bear on a meat cache), or been wounded with a marginal shot(s)..., they can take a merciless pounding and keep on going (or coming).</p><p></p><p>Other brown bear hunters tell me they've also observed this when hunting and shooting brown bear. I think it boils down to adrenalin. After their adrenalin starts pumping, they're much tougher to stop. Their tenacity for life goes up proportional to their adrenalin concentration, IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 1981149, member: 4191"] I've seen it both ways with brown bear, and it can be dumbfounding. A bear that's sleeping, relaxed, and unaware of your presence? They will sometimes flop like a deflated balloon, provided the first bullet hit has substantial energy release and is well placed in the chest cavity. A bear that's high strung, scared, mad (as in sow with itty bitty cubs, or a bear on a meat cache), or been wounded with a marginal shot(s)..., they can take a merciless pounding and keep on going (or coming). Other brown bear hunters tell me they've also observed this when hunting and shooting brown bear. I think it boils down to adrenalin. After their adrenalin starts pumping, they're much tougher to stop. Their tenacity for life goes up proportional to their adrenalin concentration, IMO. [/QUOTE]
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