"My buckshot is more powerful than any damn bow."

To a point, I agree. However, theres a long list of successful bowhunters who have taken grizzly, I know of no one whos done it with a shotgun.

Blain, I aint saying it cannot be done, I am saying your shotgun loaded with buckshot is not a primary weapon that anyone would choose to hunt with and theres reasons for that. My post above said

" When we autopsied him later we learned that although my buckshot had not hit a vital organ, some of them had penetrated the body cavity to the stomach and would have killed the bear eventually. Yet he didn't react in any way to those two shots"

Did you ignore that ? SOME shot penetrated halfway into a bear. Though the KE of a shotgun blast is much greater than that of a 750 gr arrow, the pentration ability of the arrow is unquestionably better, no doubts.

I aint arguing with you on it, and yeah, I probably could kick your booty, what I am saying is that I went into the research open minded and came away with one conclusion - only an idiot would go after grizzly with a shotgun loaded with buckshot. Alternate rounds with slug, maybe, if you are archery close, MAYBE. But then, at that point, you might as well just use the more powerful slug anyway.