" Yes I did read that and I paid special attention to the part that said "he would have died from that buckshot blast soon after"
No, thats not what was said. What was said was
" ...would have killed the bear eventually. Yet he didn't react in any way to those two shots
Big difference there, and you can't sweat the details enough when planning a hunt.
The wet phonebook thing .... man ya'll are too funny on that !!!!