Gary Reeder
on a bear hunt in Alaska a few years back I had my 510 GNR
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 14:02

revolver and Larry Kovach, who was doing the loading of all the GNR cartridges at that time, had loaded up some 445 grain .510 caliber LBT bullets at max velocities to test them on big game. I shot a bear who was trying to dance with me at a distance of maybe 3 feet with one round. It rolled him over at my feet and I hit him again on the opposite shoulder. He screamed, called me some nasty names, and said bad things about my Mother and ran off. Both bullets had exited and the bear ran off into the alders and I had to tip toe in after him. Both bullets had gone all the way thru the bear shoulder to off side rib cage and exited so there was a X shaped wound cavity in him, yet he ran off for about 50 yards into the brush.

The next day Larry shot his bear using the same load and on the video in slow motion you can see the bullet hit the bear just behind the shoulder and exit and hit the water behind the bear. Again he ran off and we never found him.

Talking to George Faerber, our guide and outfitter later and he said he had had lots of problems like that with the big heavy flat nose bullets. He said they seemed to push a column of air in front of the bullet thru the animal, pushing the internals aside and not doing any real damage. Since then he has banned those big heavy flat nose LBT bullets in his camps.