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Im not talking about shooting arrows at a bear though, Im talking about middling him in a hail of semi auto rifle fire of armour piercing rounds.... its a bit different.
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What you're "talking" is nonsense, that's the point people are attempting to make. A 5.56mm rifle, firing AP or not, is -totally- unsuitable for use against bears. Slims has taken FULL AUTO 5.56mm weapons to war, has shot them at adult human males (say 150-200lbs) and had it fail to stop them. What on Earth makes you think that a round which does not reliably stop a 200lb man is going to reliably stop a 2,000lb bear?! A bear weighs 10x what a man does. A bear is much heavier-skinned than a human, likewise has thicker fat, heavier bones, and larger organs.
That last bit is important. A .22-caliber hole (which is all that AP would produce) in a bear's Heart or Lung (note; not LungS, since it wouldn't be able to penetrate that far) WILL NOT STOP THE BEAR. A bear's heart beats 6-30 times per minute, and it's the size of a basketball. What this means is that a .22-caliber hole, or a number of such holes, will not bleed the animal out quickly enough. By the time a bear so injured -did- die, it would have had the perfect consolation of having mostly digested its' tormentor. I'd rather shoot it with the bow, personally, since the arrow has enough sectional density to get to the vitals, and a large broadhead to cause massive loss of blood.
This leaves aside totally, of course, the fact that AP ammo is totally illegal for hunting, in Canada and everywhere else I'm aware of.