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Best 12 gauge round for bear protection

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If I had to carry a 12 gauge it would be full of the largest size tungsten shot I could find. Apex makes a 2-1/2 oz BB TSS load.
 
A badass slug followed by 3 or 3.5” buckshot. Alternating back to a slug after the buckshot seems kinda dumb. Used to hear it and wonder what the mentality was when running dogs. Miss it with a slug, follow with buckshot and if you miss it there hell go back to a slug. Only guys i ever knew doing this also killed deer running across a gas line at 800yd with a 742 in 30-06
 
A badass slug followed by 3 or 3.5” buckshot. Alternating back to a slug after the buckshot seems kinda dumb. Used to hear it and wonder what the mentality was when running dogs. Miss it with a slug, follow with buckshot and if you miss it there hell go back to a slug. Only guys i ever knew doing this also killed deer running across a gas line at 800yd with a 742 in 30-06
Sounds like Sevier and mccurtain County lol
 
A badass slug followed by 3 or 3.5” buckshot. Alternating back to a slug after the buckshot seems kinda dumb. Used to hear it and wonder what the mentality was when running dogs. Miss it with a slug, follow with buckshot and if you miss it there hell go back to a slug. Only guys i ever knew doing this also killed deer running across a gas line at 800yd with a 742 in 30-06
Well I will defer to your expertise and experience what with you living in Arkansas your obviously an expert on charging brown bears……….. I only lived and worked in remote Alaska and the Kenai…
 
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Well I will defer to your expertise and experience what with you living in Arkansas your obviously an expert on charging brown bears……….. I only lived and worked in remote Alaska and the Kenai….
Aren’t you a cheerful one. Missed with the slug, hit him with the buckshot, as he runs faster lets go back to a slug, if that dont work lets go back to buckshot. :p
 
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