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Catfish,
Deer can be taken with a .357 Mag. and it can be killed with a .22 long rifle as far as that goes, that said a grizzle bear can be taken with a .357 also. If that's all I've got that's what I use, but if I've got a choice I use more.
A .44 jacketed bullet will almost always do full penetration on deer sideways, I.E. you said you found one under the skin on the off side. Use a hard cast bullet of the same weight will not only pass thru every time sideways but I'd be willing to bet a dollar to a do-nut that it will penetrate longways as well, I.E. smelly to smell-um or nose to butt going the other way.
The hide of a Grizzly Bear is thicker and that bear weighs about 9 or 10 times what that deer weighs and is a whole lot denser. There is more skin, meat, fat, grizzle and bones that will dwarf any bone in a deer. It will take a lot more penetration to get to the vitals of that bear than you ever thought about needing on any deer.
Can a jacketed hollow point do the job, maybe under ideal conditions. But what if the conditions are not ideal. Do you want to chance a hollow point that will maybe or maybe not do the job or a hard cast bullet that doesn't have to expand to do the job. What do you do when you empty all 6 shots into that bear and it takes it just long enough to die that it has time to kill you first. That hollow point is designed to expand to do the job and that expansion slows the bullet and kills deep penetration on great big bitey critters. All that hard cast bullet has to do is go in and keep going in until it dose all of the damage it can do.
The hunters doing dangerous game hunting in Africa and any other place in the world do not use hollow points for a very good reason. They use solids or soft-points depending on what they are after. They do this so that the bullets will penetrate to the vitals and do some damage. Those guys like to survive there hunting trips and no matter what anyone tells you bears little or big are dangerous game and will kill you if they get the chance.
Use the largest cal. handgun that you can get for that situation and avoid the hollow points for your choise of a howda gun.
Just my buck 95.
Bulletpusher
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Last edited by bulletpusher; 08-27-2010 at 07:13 AM.
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