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Anybody that claims to live in the Republic of Texas is a retard.

So is kellory.

Anybody that claims to live in the Republic of Texas is a retard.

So is kellory.

Curiosity, from those who have faced bears, why is a pump shotgun with solid slugs or 00buck, not the preferred close in bear weapon? Fast handling, close in devastation, and a bead sight for fast sighting. Why choose a long range rifle for a close in job?

Because a shotgun lacks penetration, even on the relatively thin skull of the big cats.

True. While bowhunting, a large caliber handgun, 357 on up, is best because of its deployability, maneuverability, power and weight. My preference when returning to one of my kills to pack out the remainder, whether rifle or bow season, is to carry my 45/70. I feel my Marlin Guide 45/70 is the ideal weapon for a close-in bear encounter. My 454 Ruger Alaskan is a close second. Luckily, I've never had to test my opinion or preference.

I’m not Matt Dillon, but I can clear leather faster than Matt Dillon.
I’m not Wyatt Earp, but I can clear leather faster than Wyatt Earp.
I’m not Billy the Kid, but I can clear leather faster than Billy the Kid.

I’m the fastest gun alive.

BTW: Anyone who'd tell someone to look left and start filling the sky with lead, while a bear is around in the hope to scare off any "potential unseen bears", while hoping a real bear doesn't step out to maul their client to death while they reload from filling the sky with lead, is in fact a complete idiot.......even Matt Dillon would tell you that pard.

P.S. I didn't say "you", or your guide were a city slicker.....read.....read....read.

I grew up with shotguns. It's a natural extension of my arm. Shotgun ammo ain't much heavier than my .450 bushmaster loads, and I don't count ounces when it's my life on the line.
Besides, even a loaded ammo belt is not uncomfortable to carry long term. (Ymmv)

Deer see blue very well. They see more into the ultraviolet than we do. Camo works better on us than them anyways. Deer can not see red, but we use hunter orange because we see it better than red. The deer would see the yellow portion of orange.

True. While bowhunting, a large caliber handgun, 357 on up, is best because of its deployability, maneuverability, power and weight. My preference when returning to one of my kills to pack out the remainder, whether rifle or bow season, is to carry my 45/70. I feel my Marlin Guide 45/70 is the ideal weapon for a close-in bear encounter. My 454 Ruger Alaskan is a close second. Luckily, I've never had to test my opinion or preference.

Because a shotgun lacks penetration, even on the relatively thin skull of the big cats.

I am baffled by approximately 96% of the posts on this thread.

When your fellow elk hunting buddies give you a nickname, based on your success, and ask you to guide for their high affluent clients too, well.....

Don't be jealous because you don't have repeat clients while wasting your life away trolling on a forum board.

Let's see. A *guide* [cough] trolls another person on the internet, and then states nobody "gives a damn" in their limited intellectual capacity to convince the dark matter in space the *guide* [cough] is a somebody with their clown statement.

I don't give a damn what you think / say / do. That is my "one" opinion.

Another liberal mental case here....wanting to place blame on the other person for the crap they started. It is called a false negative, and only Communist liberal trolls use this technique.....and the mentally sick.

I embarrassed you by making you eat crow here from your lies you posted. Deal with it mr [cough] *guide* [cough]

You realize people can go look at my posting history, and read my posts, and see you are lying again right here, right? No, liberals are incapable of thinking ahead. They just repeat lie after lie after lie in the hopes it will stick. Another Saul Alinsky student you are.

Who's trying waaaay too hard here mr *guide* [cough] troll?

I've "done something" for over two decades while elk hunting...got the mounted trophies....the friendships acquired along the way with other "true professional guides", who by the way don't call themselves a guide and troll on a forum board, unlike you.

More on the penetration from Professional Hunter Robin Hurt: "In a split second, the leopard sprang up at me from close quarters but I somehow managed to fire the second barrel with the muzzles less than a foot from its head. But as he was moving so quickly, the shot missed his head, hitting him on the side of the neck. At such close quarters, the ’00’ buckshot had acted like a solid and had absolutely no immediate effect."

shotgun on leopard

Anybody that claims to live in the Republic of Texas is a retard.

So is kellory.

Elkslayer, just how many elk have you taken to get that name from your Texas buddies? No way to know when that bull died and if you say you've never wounded an animal I call BS or you haven't been hunting long. It happens to the best of hunters. Come on up, I'll set you up in a grizz area for a hunt, we'll all see how you fare. Better bring your depends.

Because a shotgun lacks penetration, even on the relatively thin skull of the big cats.

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.When your fellow elk hunting buddies give you a nickname, based on your success, and ask you to guide for their high affluent clients too, well.....