12 Gauge Slugs for Bear Defense? Here's an ammo review you'll want to watch!

[torqem]

It's well established that there's no such thing as a "brush buster" load. All projectiles, including 12 gag slugs, are easily deflected by the "wrong' sort of impact with twigs. Naturally, the closer to the gun that impact occurs,a nd the further away from the target it occurs, the less likely you will be to get a good hit/decent penetration. I"d say that a 12 ga shotgun, with 000 Buck,. using 3" shells in an autoloader, should do ok vs big bears. You need brain hits to stop charges. So just wait until he's inside of 10 yds, and get off 3-4 really good shots at his head. Bears often make "false" charges, from a distance, to see what you will do. Once you wound them, tho, then their charge will be to the death. So to start hitting a charging brown bear (in the body) with a rifle, at less than 50 yds, with an autorifle, or less than 100 yds (open country) with a bolt action, is a mistake.

 

[BrobeeBiter]

Hello Everyone!

After wrestling pretty much all day with my iMac and it's "Glorious" Maverick upgrade (NASTY!), I finally finished editing and uploading the Brenneke 12 Gauge Slug review:

http://youtu.be/EtyPqHyhgJo

Thanks so much for all your feedback...

Cheers, and thanks for watching!

Brobee

 

[CopperFouling]

You have some high-quality videos there. Cool.

 

[JERRY]

great job on these videos!

 

[alfon99]

Great job! I thought the brennekes would penetrate a bit furrther than the federals.

 

[plumberroy]

I was at basspro today and picked up a couple boxes of the federal stuff to try in a couple guns. the nose is very flat should put some smack on something along with the deep penatration

 

[torqem]

You dont need deep penetration.

You need brain hits to stop charges reliably, and you need them really quickly. As I said before, bears will often make false charges, but then give up when you dont flee. If you wound them, it's on, bro, and chest hits are not likely to suffice.

 

[Torian]

Great job! I thought the brennekes would penetrate a bit furrther than the federals.

If the slug was going through a mixture of flesh and bone / cranial plate, my money would be on the brenneke.

 

[Sav .250]

Besides the information you get here you might also check out .The Alaska Outdoor Forum.
Those guys have first hand experience . As the Alaska Game wardens,who use shoot guns and slugs on Bear.

 

[torqem]

There's a book on a Mountie shooting 40 odd bears

in his career. Nuisance animals that got into somebody's garage or basement and wouldn't leave. He used a .22lr single shot rifle and shot them in the ear hole. I think maybe Ben Casey wrote it.