If you only had a shotgun

[albanian]

"Spoken like a true Texacan."

A little off topic but I heard a good one about Texas yesterday. My dad told me it. He said if he owned both Texas and Hell, he would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

 

[Lupinus]

But bears are so cute and cuddly...

famous last words of bear boy timmothy tredwell

 

[LAK]

Only one kind - and not shot. Original Brenneke slugs.
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[1911 guy]

2 3/4 slugs

3 inchers tend to be erratic at inopportune moments in my mossberg. So, full mag of slugs, followed closely by running as fast as my now chubby self can go while screaming like a schoolgirl.

 

[HerrWolfe]

If shotgun load was limited to shot, guess shot would be OO, with the shotgun muzzle first placed about three feet past his ???? with a l-o-n-g string on the trigger . Othewise, a slug in at least 10 gauge, or 6 or better yet, 4 if still found anywhere. Yes, I read the post on the two naturalists in AK. About five years back, a lady was eaten by a bear about 50 miles from my location.

 

[belton-deer-hunter]

i would use slugs or mabee 00 or 000 buck to the face if i had to but prefer slugs

 

[MCgunner]

Steel 3" #6....somebody had to say it.

Is the question which LOAD or which SHOTGUN?

Me, I'd want a Marlin Guide gun in .45-70 with hot/heavy bullet handloads. If just a shotgun, any tacticool size magazine with a rifled barrel and brenneke slugs in 12 gauge 3" should do the trick. They're bears, not tanks. I guess a LAW rocket would do, though.

 

[kbheiner7]

Big, fast slugs - no other real option.

 

[Sunray]

"...No buck....slug only!..." Exactly. Buckshot is for firefights in phone booths.
Mind you, if you're afraid of bears, stay home. Bears, even big bears, don't see you as anything but trouble. They're not stupid. You smell bad to them.

 

[TMM]

as i like to say, "12 gauge slug can kill anything on god's green earth"

this is no exception. Federal rifled 1oz. hollowpoint slugs, 2 3/4" shell. 3 or 3.5" would, in my mind, buck too much to shoot fast and stay on target.

~tmm

 

[RyanM]

3" Remington Buckhammer slugs. 600 grain slug without the wad (most companies give you the weight of the slug and wad combined) at 1550 fps.

 

[stevelyn]

Brenneke slugs. I've had them break both shoulders on bears.

 

[carpettbaggerr]

If you want shot, they make 000 buckshot -- ten .36 caliber pellets in a 3" shell.

If you're going for slugs : http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=178655&highlight=gauge+rifle


http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=178655&highlight=gauge+rifle

 

[Art Eatman]

albanian, I believe that was originally attributed to Gen. Phil Sheridan, back before the War of Yankee Aggression.

He may have also been the one who commented, "Texas is fine for men and horses, but it's hell on women and dogs." And, "Everything in Texas either sticks, stings or stinks."

Art

 

[Terrierman]

To continue with the Texas bashing theme, I've heard it said that the main thing wrong with Texas is it's so full of Texans...Now, as for me, (said in my best apologetic voice) I don't have anything against Texans, why some of my very best friends are Texans, I even go to church with a couple of Texans, and so on....

Wasn't it Jimmy Rodgers who said he'd never been able to see further and see less, see more windmills and less water than in Texas?

 

[Art Eatman]

Probably.

But I can live with stuff like Post #33''s picture in http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=162416&page=2

or "vertical drag strips" like this 1,500 foot "ditch"...

 

[Terrierman]

Those are two pretty pictures of some spectacular scenery. I was just in Texas last month in the blackland country - we did a little dog trial thing and then a bit of hunting after with a good friend. It's sure dry down there still. The best part - absolute best - was the burritos we got at my friend's usual little gas station with a grill in the back. I was glad to have him with me to order as he is bilingual and the cook was not - we would have had a time of it. I liked the chorizo and eggs a lot, but the barbacoa was even better. You all do have some pretty nice country down there and really nice people too, but the food, it's the best.

 

[mp510]

Biggest heaviest slug your gun may safely handle.

 

[mbt2001]

I would want one of the Winchester Trench guns of the Mossberg 590 loaded with 2 slugs and then 000 buck. But I would also have a BAYONET affixed to the barrel so that I could stab that thing and fire the last shot after doing my best to run him through....

The other options is one of the SAIGA shotguns converted to full auto....

 

[1911JMB]

Convert a Saiga? I'm sure its been done by backyard smiths, but I wonder if any class 3 dealers have done that yet. Sure would be cool to see at the Creek.

 

[H&Hhunter]

OK ok I can’t resist, Think Ted & Bill’s awesome adventure here:


I wonder if the bears in katmai when sitting around conversing in bearinese use the phrase "Pulling off a Treadwell" when refering to catching a naked ape?

For instance a bear ambles up to a fishing hole with a pair of hiking boots tied around his neck and is using a femur bone to pick the scalp and tie die particles out of his teeth. Do you guys think when the other bears asked him waazup? He says "dude I just Treadwelled."

Then the other bear says dude, what are those bodacious red marks all over your face. Uhhh that dude had was carrying a smoke pole but I got lucky he had it loaded with "Timothy shot" (buck shot in bearinese) so I only got these wicked welts, dude. Then I went like totally thermo nuclear on this dweeb.

You should have seen the look on his face when I ripped his head off!!!

Sorry I’ll go back into my kennel now.

 

[kennyboy]

3.5" 00 buck or heavy slugs in a Benelli SBE II with a mag extension.