Where to aim when shooting grizzly bear with slug?

First off I’m not a novice to bears. I have hunted them and lived with them for a long time. Every year I have brown bears near me while fishing here in Alaska.

You don’t go into bear country with one slug for your shotgun that’s just Darwin award ignorance.

When attacked:

As said you don’t aim for the head, you aim for the upper torso if you only have a single shot. Eject shell reload and ready for next shot.

If you have a gun that hold several rounds you take the shoulders out then go for upper torso shot.

Here is a picture of shot placement;

http://www.alphatrilogy.com/wp-content/uploads/Hun...

When a bear is running towards you, many recommend aiming at its nose so that the slug/bullet will enter the upper chest where the lings/heart and spine is located at that angle. Hit high and it goes through the snout and hits the base of the neck and upper lungs. Hit low and you hit the lungs/heart area. There have been cases where this nose shot resulted in the bullet going up the sinus cavity into the brain but this is rare indeed.

Center mass shot will work when nanoseconds is all you have.

I advise NOT to carry a single shot in grizzly or brown bear country. I have seen these animals take numerous shots from high power rifles before they went down. And only a complete fool would bring one bullet or slug.

Hope this answers your question.

Here is what can happen;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBK8mRo96Ns

Here is what not to do;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40sHm130brE&feature...

Wow! You can't shoot, don't know what to do, and like to run around in the deep north woods. (You're, kind 'a like a, 'tuna fish sandwich for bears' - huh.) Worse, I have the impression that you've never had to stand still during a sudden, life-threatening emergency. If you don't know your weapon and don't know how to use it, then, what are you carrying it for? Do you just want to piss the bear off, or what? (Those distance formulae you cite are RIDICULOUS, and have little to do with real life survival.) The right way to use a 12 gauge on a bear is to have the correct ammunition and allow the animal to get VERY CLOSE before you fire. Personally, I'd wait until the animal gets within 6 feet before I'd shoot. Straight shooting under stress requires you to be, both, well practiced and very familiar with your firearm. If you need a calculator before you feel confident to make the shot ........ You're dead! My suggestion for you is to, either, stay out of the woods or else set up an emergency protocol against a potential bear attack. I know ammunition is expensive; (Believe me, I know.) but you need to practice with that rifle until you're able to mount it to your shoulder, quickly, and hit what you're aiming at. Lose the bear spray; the only thing you'll accomplish with it is to teach some bear to like spicy food. If you've got time and a choice, go for the shotgun first. At about 25 yards fire a warning shot off to one side or the other of the bear - Preferably before he begins the charge. Do NOT fire a warning shot directly in front of the bear because you might skip the shot into him without sufficient force to do any real damage. Aim off to the side. Personally, I'd load the first two rounds as slugs, and the next two as 00 buckshot that's NOT to be used at any distance greater than 6 feet. (World famous big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick used to wait until his charging targets were within 3-4 feet before firing his 12 gauge 00 buckshot loads.) It's time for you to understand your weapons and learn how to shoot. Whether or not you'll be able to, 'stand for it' I really don't know? I can, however, tell you this: You have to focus; you have to, 'go cold'. Your entire world rests on the end of your muzzle and what it's pointing at. If you have to stop to think about what you're doing, you'll probably fail. Forget the numbers; forget the formulae. 'Triangulate' both sides of your brain on the point of the incoming target, wait for the right moment, and begin firing. Until the event is finished, don't allow yourself to think about anything else except making the shot and anchoring the target. PS: It helps to be Sicilian! ;)

Aim right for the head. That way you are likely to get a piece of something. A 12ga slug is a big round, it isn't going to bounce off a skull. It will remove a chunk of whatever it hits.

if your a good enough aim, right below between the eyes, if you'd aim directly between the eyes, it can deflect off the skull, likely not killing it, right below there's a divot in the sinuses that allows the bullet only one way to go, through to the brain.

or I'd aim for the shoulders, this will take out the front legs, incapacitating it, but not necessarily killing it, you'd need a second slug to the head or vitals.

If you only have one shell, and the bear is charging you, wait until you can shove the shotgun barrel down the bears throat and then pull the trigger.

the head between the eyes make sure you are a good shot the neck would be good but if the bear is chargeing he will be comeing strait for you and you wont get a clear shot on the neck and the chest the bear will still be running at u and may not die in time so i say the head would be the best place to shoot it make sure its between the eyes and you are a good shot.

Take Glacierwolf and Bear Craps advice.....

For more in depth clarity look here at this article...... Its by Chuck Hawk... Pay attention to the last paragraph...

http://www.chuckhawks.com/shotguns_protection_fiel...

You're probably screwed.

Your best bet would probably be to break the shoulder, scramble up a tree, and wait it out.

Bears... are a bit different. Sure, they're blood, flesh, and bone... but they're *certainly* a bit tougher to kill than most anything else.

aim at the middle of the big black mass that is about to devour you.

you wont have time to think or react ... and after the gun passes through the bear someone else may be able to use it... after they clean it up of course.

well like josh said its best to aim for the head if its charging at you, but if you have the chance to shoot it before it charges then the neck will be the good spot, don't worry about the slug taking too long to kill, because the slug will tear a large hole when it hits and thus making it dead