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I have taken BB with a 50 and found no issues . Just place the ball just like an archer would an arrow .

I would als agree the BB can get rather big .
A few years back a friend and I picked up a skull we found while grouse hunting here in Idaho .
It was so big I thought it must be a real bear .
I took it into the IF&G region 3 office and the Biologist there agreed even though shape wasn�t quite right.
He sated that when black bears get that big they are hard to differentiate . He then had me take the skull down to the main state biologist who looked it over , gave an un office score of 21 5/8 .
He also thought it was a grizzly .
While having a cup of coffee and talking it over and showing him on a map where I found it , he said , let me check something .
He measured the back molar. It was under 5/8 .
He then changed his mind and said it defiantly was a black bear . Seems when that molar drops in grizzlies , its always 5/8 or bigger . With black bears that molar doesn�t get bigger then 5/8 .

It did not really mater all that much to me . The bear when alive was bigger then I would want to have come face to face with while climbing through a brush thicket

Here is the skull .