Gary Reeder
George Faerber made that decision after several bears ran
Thursday, February 27, 2020, 17:00

off after being hit in the vitals with the heavy hard cast bullets. Two of those animals were mine and one of my other guys. My bear hit at kissing distance rolled and ran off after i hit him again and again at kissing distance. This was with my 510 GNR and ammo loaded by the owner of Cartridge Performance Engineering. It was 435 grain hard cast gas checked bullets and the bear ran off after being hit twice at close range and I had to go in the alders after him. The next day another of my guys hit a big bear just behind the shoulder and in slow motion video we could see the bullet hit him just behind the shoulder and go all the way thru and hit the water behind him. He ran off and we never found him. George said he had had several incidents like that with the heavy lead bullets. His theory was the bullet is pushing a column of air thru the animal pushing the vitals aside and not doing a lot of internal damage. So after that he banned any of the heavy hard cast lead bullets from being used in his camp.