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Originally Posted by aigel View Post
The 00 should kill a black bear. General rule is that anything that you'd take deer hunting with confidence, you can use black bear hunting as well. I do however recommend you rather go with a slug than buck shot on a bear. The sabot slug is made for a rifled shotgun barrel, the rifled slugs are for a smooth bore shotgun barrel. I recommend a rifled barrel (comes with sights most the time) with the sabot for best accuracy.

George
The PA record black bear is 800+ lbs. I would not count on 00 being sufficient on a large bear. A 250lb PA whitetail is huge.
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