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With spring bear just around the corner, my thoughts are turning to the hairy beasts, instead of black guns, for once. A friend of mine I load for shoots a 300 RUM. He is looking for maximum shock value as the place where we hunt is steep as the proverbial cow's face, and wants DRT. He initially brought the gun to me with a box full of handloaded 180gr Speer BTSP's. They shot ok, but he wanted more "smackdown". So I set him up with some 168gr TTSX. The rifle went on to presumably kill 4 spring bears last year, 2 DRT's, a 75 yard track job, and one spinning starfish towards the bottom of a hell hole never to be seen again.
Now when I was taught to kill bear when I was a kid it was, "break them, then kill them". Meaning a shot through the shoulders and another immediately through vitals.
Now he wants to try a different bullet. I am not sure where to go here. If the gun were mine, it would eat 200gr Accubonds and nothing else, but it's not.
So, question is, what bullet would you all recommend for the situation at hand?
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Now when I was taught to kill bear when I was a kid it was, "break them, then kill them". Meaning a shot through the shoulders and another immediately through vitals.
Now he wants to try a different bullet. I am not sure where to go here. If the gun were mine, it would eat 200gr Accubonds and nothing else, but it's not.
So, question is, what bullet would you all recommend for the situation at hand?
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