RE: pick the grumpy North American animal...
 

My pump 30-06 200 grain Partitions or 250 grain Barnes Originals. With this gun I am the most confident in getting off three or four shots and the ability to hit where I want. For me I couldn't do better. Plus thats what I would be carring anyway so I would have to use it.

RE: pick the grumpy North American animal...
 

This reminds me of the story Sheriff Jim Wilson recounted in Shooting Times when he went into the brush on hands and knees after a wounded hog. After the confrontation his buddies said they had never before heard a single action go full auto.

Choice would have to be a short bbl. 870 w/ OOBuck.

RE: pick the grumpy North American animal...
 

No doubt that a pump or auto shotgun would be a good bet but would a guy have one with him while hunting other big Game. Like they said you won't have time to go home and change guns. Maybe I misread the question.

RE: pick the grumpy North American animal...
 

Yah, didn't mean to mislead you, James B. Just a "what if;" most of us are stuck with what we carry unless we are prosperous enough to hire help.