I am borrowing my buddy's kid my 77/44 to hopefully harvest his 1st black bear. It's the lightest rifle I own that fits him. The kid is 12 and small for his age. He will be hunting over bait and I plan on video taping the hunt.
Which brings me to the question...between the two boolits which one has the best chance of dropping a black bear in its tracks with a properly placed shot and if it needs to be tracked I need to choose between the two boolits that will leave a bigger exit hole for a good blood trail.
I would assume at this close distance they both are going to work fine. The devisator is PC,GC, ac COWW w/2%pewter and a BH of 14.3. I have it loaded pretty stout. 24g of w296 and probably will drop it to a lighter charge if needed. The 310 is WQ has a BH of 15. I do have some AC that should be at 14.3 BH. Lastly, I just casted up some devistators with 6% pewter and lead flooring, PC and GC that should be around 7.5BH which from what I've read probably want to load about 1400 fps.
I'm leaning toward the 14.3 devistators hoping they will act like a partition and cause more trauma shedding the HP.