Another Burger Bear Bites the Boolit

[Markopolo]

Another one for the freezer..

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This one was close... about 40ft. Was just getting out of the truck when this prime candidate for burger walked over like it was his truck. My son Matthew (pictured) dashed for the open door, and I plowed him with a spine shot to the neck from my Remington 788 in 308 with the a custom NOE 311299 hollow point over 31g of Varget.. backed the truck up and loaded him.. not much of a hunt to be honest... didn’t even get my hip boots on when he walked over to see what was in our picnick basket. These are the kind of young bears I love to take out of the local population. Curious close to town brave young bears turn into aggressive habituated bears if not dealt with.

This is one of my favorite boolits around here. Great from my 308’s, and my son Matthews 30-06. It is a hunt/show stopper..

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Freezer is filling fast.. one or 2 to go.

Marko.

[Texas by God]

Hunt on, brother- and eat well.

[Edward]

Perhaps look into a Burger King franchise

[Markopolo]

:Luvcastboolits:

I think I mentioned that Fast food around here is a Blacktail disappearing into the brush....

Heading into town on the 3rd.. better pickup some more bacon pieces.. my 90 year old neighbor dropped off some goodies to go with it...

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1 year shy of 90, only one eye works, and can’t hear a dang thing, but still raking in the shrimp.. his name is Dave, and is very dear to me.

Another day of Redneck surf and turf...

[knifemaker]

Sounds like a great neighbor. He supplies you with the shrimp and you supply him with bear burger meat. Everybody is happy and eating good.

[Tripplebeards]

Shazam!!! Another One Bites the Dust, great job!

[BarkEater]

Fantastic job guys and kudos to your neighbor, that shrimp looks huge !!!

[jughead76]

Wow! Those are some big shrimp! Nice looking bear, congrats!

[JBinMN]

Nice!

[EMC45]

Can't beat redneck surf and turf!

[trapper9260]

Good job on it all. It is nice you did not had to go far to get the bear. He volunteer to be on your table. Not the way he plan. I had one time happened when I went out deer hunting and where I pull in to park my truck. There was 2 does about 20yards from where I pull to park and drop one in its track with a muzzle loader. It was less then 30 mins to shoot and field dress and put in the back of the pick up. The one I live near seen me drive by at first and then later see me stop by to talk with my brother that was there and the guy ask was it me you shot I said yes I got the deer here in the back. He was scratch his head and his wife too. Nice for your friend to do what he did for what he gave you. Nice meal to both .

[nagantguy]

Nice job on the bear- young ones with no fear do become a big problem. Also great story about your dear neighbor- sounds like a tough old guy and I’m sure has great stories and experience!

[luvtn]

How many grs is that HP .308? I also have a Rem 788 in .308. Nice rifles!
Luvtn

[Markopolo]

Mine run about 190ish Luvtn

[Jedman]

Nice Job, Marco ! I think it's only right that sometimes the game comes easy. Some years for deer I spend hundreds on gas, motels, sit out in rain and snow freezing and come home with nothing.
Once in a while you walk out and kill one 5 minutes from the start and give thanks for your luck.

Jedman

[Nodakjohns]

I am always grateful no matter how my luck is that day, as i am sure you are. Sometimes luck comes, sometimes we have to work hard to get lucky ! Either way congratulations!

[SSGOldfart]

Congrats

[bullet maker 57]

Yahoo! Never had bear meat. Not many bear hunters around here.

[redhawk0]

Congrats to the OP on thinning the herd. Bears that are too "friendly" when young...become a problem later on.

redhawk

[Markopolo]

thanks redhawk... lots of folks seem to get wierd about young eating bears.. but when we live out like this, you do need to thin them out...

[Outpost75]

Am curious about how well the HP cast bullet penetrated. Did it break up or mushroom and hold together?

I take it it didn't exit the bear? I use a similar load in my .303 No.4.

[Markopolo]

unfortunately it did exit the bear.. destroyed the spine and kept going. it was over. i have yet to recover a bullet loaded that way, but by the look of the wound channel, it was fairly expanded... there were also no fragments of the bullet that I saw in the wound. i have killed several deer and bears with that boolit, and just love the mould... mostly its bigger then what is needed for our small deer and young bears.. but if a bigger bear gets pushy, it is just the thing... nothing like being prepared... it does make quite a hole.

[siamese4570]

How fast are you pushing that boolit? Just read an article in hand loader about the 303 savage. Sounds pretty close.
Siamese4570

[osteodoc08]

Fantastic!

As an aside, any idea of the velocity and and recovers boolits?

[pworley1]

Looks like a great day.

[Markopolo]

osteodoc, I am pretty sure I am running around 1800fps with the hollow point version and 31g of varget. with the solid 311299 and 35gr of varget I was running 2100k ish according to my notes. i chronoed them a couple years ago when I first got the solid mould, but wasnt in the sweet spot for my setup. ok accuracy at that speed. when I slowed the HP version down to 31g of varget, that was the magic number. my alloy for hunting around here is 50-50 ww and dead soft into ingots, then 50 of that to 50 range lead for final boolits with enough tin to get good fill.. not very hard. pretty decent alloy and helps me streach my ww and pure lead supply with range lead. everything goes farther that way.

marko

[osteodoc08]

1800 FPS seems to be a prettt consistent number for good accuracy. Certainly others have pushed the envelope successfully......if y’all remember the 30 XCB experiment, but realistically for me, 1800 seems to be a pretty good number.

[Markopolo]

there just is no need to go faster really.. 1800 fps x 196g boolit = dead animal.. shot placement is always something, but a shoulder shot or a lung shot are nice hi precentage shots on a bear, and unless the animal is very close like this one was, the high precentage shot is what to aim at.. and I have a dog that tracks.. but with a shoulder shot, the bear generally stops right there, and maybe trashes around a bit but aint going far.. that boolit is always a pass through on even a shoulder shot with a young bear... can we say Face Plant???

[Ramjet-SS]

Nice I am big fan of that boolit.