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Luke S
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Details on the grizzly
Overall I was perfectly happy with my .308 on a grizzly. Now to be fair, a 6 foot grizzly is nothing huge, I shot a black bear that was a similar size. But your average interior grizzly probably won't be bigger enough to matter. I'd still like to take apart a 10 footer and see how much difference there is in bone size, etc.
But my .308 with match bullets did similar damage to my old .358 with premium bullets while being easier to source ammo/reloading stuff for and giving me longer range.
My nurse practitioner friend said he doubted a bigger hole in the lungs would kill an animal (or person) much faster in his experience. He said the only thing would be that a really small hole might seal up as the skin moved around and that would slow the inevitable death as the lungs collapsed. So yes a FMJ bullet might be slower to kill with a lung shot. But, once there is a hole in the lungs/chest cavity that doesn't seal, nothing lives long.
- First shot through the chest took out one lung and "bruised" the other. Apparently it was filling with blood according to a medical friend who looked at my pictures. It also punched through one side of the heart. This shot was at a downward angle. Engrance and exit holes were about 1.5 to 2 inches. Similar to what a .358 did to several black bears. The holes through the lungs were smaller, maybe .75 inches. Again, my medical friend points out that the lungs probably shrank up as they deflated to the hole in the live bear might have been bigger.
- One follow up through the brush was a miss, another nicked the hind leg
- The final follow up angled in through the stomach behind the ribs and stopped in the heart. We found a section of jacket there.
Overall I was perfectly happy with my .308 on a grizzly. Now to be fair, a 6 foot grizzly is nothing huge, I shot a black bear that was a similar size. But your average interior grizzly probably won't be bigger enough to matter. I'd still like to take apart a 10 footer and see how much difference there is in bone size, etc.
But my .308 with match bullets did similar damage to my old .358 with premium bullets while being easier to source ammo/reloading stuff for and giving me longer range.
My nurse practitioner friend said he doubted a bigger hole in the lungs would kill an animal (or person) much faster in his experience. He said the only thing would be that a really small hole might seal up as the skin moved around and that would slow the inevitable death as the lungs collapsed. So yes a FMJ bullet might be slower to kill with a lung shot. But, once there is a hole in the lungs/chest cavity that doesn't seal, nothing lives long.
