How heavy is a brown bears shoulder bone structure compared to an elk or a moose?
Very, very light. Not even in the same Zip Code. A brown bear's scapula is light enough I fleshed one out shot by OlBlue (8'+ older bear as I recall) and took a photo of it with an orange handled knife behind it on a gorgeous Kodiak spring day.
You can clearly see the color and shape of the handle THROUGH the scapula!
Materials science weights a lot of materials in very specific ways and the bb scapula is an ultimate example. Clearly they are designed to the ultimate needs of brown bears, but heft appears to be unimportant. I suspect shock-absorption and strength in virtually every other dimension is the real test of a brown bear skeleton.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
