" 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 !!!!