Next time 12ga .00 buck, not bird shot. Or better .50cal pistol
“Next time 12ga .00 buck, not bird shot. Or better .50cal pistol”
My personal choice would have been breneke slugs to get more penetration.
The idiot is lucky to be alive. You close on the bear and shoot it with bird shot, WTH! If you are going to use #8 shot on a bear you do it from a distance to sting it in the butt and the thought goes, the bear will remember the pain from that area and not return. I have had game wardens tell me to do the same thing to black bears in my area.
That being said, unless the bear is threatening family or family pets and is just passing through, then pass through. Otherwise I do keep a 28 inch barrel Mossberg 500 .12 gauge in my front closet with the first two rounds being #8 shot for said stinging purposes, but on the back end are slugs in case the bear charges. And I don’t intend to do the #8 shot sting it in the backside thing unless at a distance and I sure as hell am not going to run towards one and fire.
I had a 400 lbs black bear in my yard a few years back. I had told my 8 yr old son to open the front door and kennel our dog up for the night, it was dusk and he walked out on the porch and the Irish setter about knocked him down as soon as he walked out charging off the porch to confront this huge black bear. My son came back inside screaming bear, bear! I went outside with my wife and sure enough the dog and bear had squared off about 10 feet apart both growling and going crazy.
I yelled at my wife get the shotgun out of the closet, now! Why she said? JUST DO IT! I then told her, when I shoot the dog almost always runs for the front door, when she does drag her inside. I fired into the ground and sure enough she broke and ran for the door and my wife pulled her inside. The bear looked at me like, the next move is yours. I wracked the slide and fired again into the ground and wracked another round of 00 buck into the chamber preparing for a charge onto my front porch. The bear looked for a few seconds and slowly turned and ambled off into the woods.
This fool is lucky this be alive.