What's the best bear medicine?
.375 h&h, .45-70, or 12 gauge?
What's the best bear medicine?
.375 h&h, .45-70, or 12 gauge?
Honestly, all you need is shot placement and a .22lr
45/70 is the patrician's injun removal device, bears are pretty close to injuns. Closer than elephants, anyway.
Out of those, in order; .45-70, 12, .375
I'd take a BR with a 20 in RFN with a low power optic, preferably.
14.5" barrel if NFA did not exist.
.45-70, the only Government you can trust.
Honestly though OP in this day and age 12ga with 3" slugs is the go-to. Not because it's the best per se, it works well enough and is cheap.
Not really, even with out shot placement the .22 will bounce inside the bear and kill it
Little known fact .22 actually accelerates inside bears. They eventually explode from all the friction and heat of the bullet now reaching near light speed.
40mm RIP round
We know what. 22 does inside the bears, but what do the bears do inside you?