.75 musket for bear.

[rawhide]

I have a 1740 potdam musket replica I also mite try hunting with this year for bear and deer. Fond the gun likes 90 grns. Of Fg with a .735 ball with a denum patch. Will this be enough for bear?

 

[flintlock75]

If accurate enough it should be fine. I use 90gr of 3F and a patched .705 ball in mine, the bore measures .729. This load has worked on Moose and Caribou with no problems, big going in and out.

 

[BrownBear]

Dunno about bear, but a .735 ball on top of 100 grains of 1f flat put the spank on a good deer I shot at 25 yards. Far as I know that ball is still whistling off through the brush.

 

[tenngun]

Fist book I read on ml back in the 70s had a story about a guy who hunted bear,moose,and elk with only an origanal .77 cal bess.You ought to do well on black bear.

 

[schreck5]

That-a-way!! SPANK that deer! :rotf:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Probably more than adequate up to the black bear. But for brown bear/grizzly's methinks forgetting the traditional guns at home and bringing a big suppository rifle makes more sense.

 

[wbfos]

I use a .54 patched ball and 90gr of FFg Goex and dropped a deer and one 250lb hog where it stood

 

[okawbow]

Pound for pound, I've found black bear are easier to kill than deer. The two I've shot with longbow and single blade broadhead, have went down in a few seconds, in sight. However; a bears vitals are smaller and in a slightly different position than a deers'. Shot placement is more critical.

My 69 cal musket puts a ball easily through a large deer, even breaking leg bones on the way, with 90 gr. 2f. I'm sure it would shoot through the biggest bear with the same load.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Probably more than adequate up to the black bear. But for brown bear/grizzly's methinks forgetting the traditional guns at home and bringing a big suppository rifle makes more sense.

If you going to need follow up shots your doing it wrong anyway!

Bits.

 

[Carl Fowler III]

If your talking black bear, yea should be fine...if yea are talking Grizzar bear, go with a side by side Kodiak in .54...one side loaded with ball and ta other with conical...then in your belt a Howdah SXS .62 loaded up the same way...this should give yea 4 shots before yea get mauled....remember to shoot and quickly step up wind so the smoke won't impair ye vision! :v