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<blockquote data-quote="alcesgigas" data-source="post: 559165" data-attributes="member: 34925"><p>I use 270 grain Barnes XBTs or whatever they're now called--the new ones have cannula grooves. But you may want to try the 300 grains version. This year I loaded up some Barnes 350 grain solids and surprise--they shot to the same point of impact at 100 yards as the 270s. They are round nosed, but some form of copper bronze matrix, still not a real long range bullet, but then 500 yards isn't overly long range--for most game.</p><p></p><p>I'll not moralize here--just state my way. I wouldn't shoot any bear beyond, say, 200 yards unless there's snow on the ground and the bear really needed killing with any load/rifle. I killed a starving grizzly in a cabin on Thanksgiving day 2008. He was around 25 years old and his teeth were--and are--worn below the gums. He'd taken to visiting homes in an ever decreasing circle in our two adjoining villages looking for anything he could eat. The fore-mentioned was compounded by an injury he received in late August or early September; someone shot and hit him in his right rear ankle. Skinning later that ankle was the size of a football and gangrenous--so much so that anyone entering the shop got sick. The Discovery channel aired a report in their <em>Alaska Most Extreme </em>program April 16, 2009. A six-year-old girl daily sledded down the hill that led to the cabin I shot him in--every afternoon. I shot him a little after noon.</p><p></p><p>In many respects we were lucky; villagers were vigilant for over a month knowing an "ice bear" was in their midst. I hunted/tracked him for as long and been caught out after dark doing so--a stimulating experience. Dark means after 2PM here in late November; it's "light" around 11AM or so. Not much time. Nor would there be for anyone mauled and munched on by this wounded and desperate bear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alcesgigas, post: 559165, member: 34925"] I use 270 grain Barnes XBTs or whatever they're now called--the new ones have cannula grooves. But you may want to try the 300 grains version. This year I loaded up some Barnes 350 grain solids and surprise--they shot to the same point of impact at 100 yards as the 270s. They are round nosed, but some form of copper bronze matrix, still not a real long range bullet, but then 500 yards isn't overly long range--for most game. I'll not moralize here--just state my way. I wouldn't shoot any bear beyond, say, 200 yards unless there's snow on the ground and the bear really needed killing with any load/rifle. I killed a starving grizzly in a cabin on Thanksgiving day 2008. He was around 25 years old and his teeth were--and are--worn below the gums. He'd taken to visiting homes in an ever decreasing circle in our two adjoining villages looking for anything he could eat. The fore-mentioned was compounded by an injury he received in late August or early September; someone shot and hit him in his right rear ankle. Skinning later that ankle was the size of a football and gangrenous--so much so that anyone entering the shop got sick. The Discovery channel aired a report in their [I]Alaska Most Extreme [/I]program April 16, 2009. A six-year-old girl daily sledded down the hill that led to the cabin I shot him in--every afternoon. I shot him a little after noon. In many respects we were lucky; villagers were vigilant for over a month knowing an "ice bear" was in their midst. I hunted/tracked him for as long and been caught out after dark doing so--a stimulating experience. Dark means after 2PM here in late November; it's "light" around 11AM or so. Not much time. Nor would there be for anyone mauled and munched on by this wounded and desperate bear. [/QUOTE]
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