Once again the 375 is shooting bullets of better construction than a pistol bullet pushed to fast.
Arrowing a bear is actually safer than shooting one with a rifle. If your smart the bear never knows where you are or what just happened, often just looking around for a minute then walking a short ways and collapsing. 90% of the time an arrow shot bear either runs the direction its facing or back where it came from never knowing why it doesnt feel so good all of the sudden. THe arrow zips thru so fast they don't really feel it like they do a gunshot.
When you shoot one with a gun you make plenty of noise along with the shock and they tend to associate the two together istantly marking you as the enemy, and source of thier discomfort.
My problem isn't with the 444 case, its the bullets that are availbable for it. All too often 240gr pistol bullets are pushed well beyond thier ability hold together. If there were more bullets actually designed for the 444 as a rifle I wouldn't think twice about it. Maybe a heavier version of the new hornady lever revelution. There are some decent bullets out there, the hard cast, and a few jacketed bullets like hawks heavy jacked 300gr RN and SP. An all copper flat point solid like the belt mountain punch bullet would be another good one. THe 444 is just hamstringed by bullet selection when truly big game is concerned.
Last edited by Josh Sorensen; 12/16/05.
