Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska A few questions for Mr Shoemaker if I may?

A few years ago we had a problem with bears while we were at camp. One of them refused to stay away in spite of the use of proven methods of deterrence. Finally at 2:30 in the morniing - after the 'problem child' was clattering around on the porch a measly 1/4" of Plexiglas away from being inside with us - I went back out and gave him a slug through the shoulders as he loped back and forth. The slug didn't make it through the broadside animal in spite of hitting only muscle rib and lung.





I keep common slugs handy as noise makers as they splatter on the rocks just fine (which is generally one of the better ways of deterring these animals anyway). I have no use for buckshot; a 170 SP out of a 30 WCF penetrates better than they do.