[Mariner]

"It is all about displacing energy in the bear. If the bullet passes through the bear much of that energy is lost."

No, it's all about hitting the shoulder, spine or penetrating the skull.

In a rage, it take 1-3 minutes for them to bleed out if you hit them ANYWHERE else with ...anything.

[oldenuff2no]

You are right and wrong. Hitting those things with a pop gun will just cause you more problems. It is all about terminal energy in the target. You have to hit a big bone with a 375 to expend all the energy inside the bear. You want the bullet to shed all of its kinetic energy in the body of the bear. That round has about 4500 lbs of energy. If that bear or any other bear absorbed that much energy it would be stopped. It is all about the math of terminal energy.