I shot a couple of black bears over hounds with mine after I cut it down. In the heat of the moment I never noticed the difference in the full house loads...albeit I have a Houge on it. Out of the few bears I've killed....4 were with arrows....2 with the .44...one with a 9X57 Mauser and one with a 20 ga shotgun I took away from a fear struck teen as we were about to get run over. Sure am glad I didn't know I needed a .458 Lott......


We eat organic in our house, we just have to shoot and gut it first.....