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Why/How do you pick the projectile to build your load around?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Massi" data-source="post: 2370475" data-attributes="member: 106096"><p>Because It's the most effective way to kill them. Their lungs are much larger than depicted in that cartoon(geared for archers- likely sitting over bait, probably shooting some light 100gr whitetail expanding broadhead instead of a nice heavy cut on contact but I digress.</p><p>The heart sits lower towards the sternum and the livers back between the lungs and rib. Hits to any of those will kill the bear obviously.... </p><p>Guys who shoulder shoot bears are responsible for the myth that black bears are hard to kill- they aren't</p><p>Shoulder shooters miss the vitals entirely, bone and bullet shrapnel from the shoulder has trouble reaching the vitals so they are left having to put one in the vitals after the fact or like the op- blaming the bullet for poor shot placement. There isn't a black bear alive that's going to shake off a 200+ gr 30 cal "middle of middle" because they will die shortly from oxygen deprevation to the brain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew Massi, post: 2370475, member: 106096"] Because It's the most effective way to kill them. Their lungs are much larger than depicted in that cartoon(geared for archers- likely sitting over bait, probably shooting some light 100gr whitetail expanding broadhead instead of a nice heavy cut on contact but I digress. The heart sits lower towards the sternum and the livers back between the lungs and rib. Hits to any of those will kill the bear obviously.... Guys who shoulder shoot bears are responsible for the myth that black bears are hard to kill- they aren't Shoulder shooters miss the vitals entirely, bone and bullet shrapnel from the shoulder has trouble reaching the vitals so they are left having to put one in the vitals after the fact or like the op- blaming the bullet for poor shot placement. There isn't a black bear alive that's going to shake off a 200+ gr 30 cal "middle of middle" because they will die shortly from oxygen deprevation to the brain. [/QUOTE]
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