do the job, with far less recoil, and are available in autoloaders, making fast repeat hits feasible. You are no longer stuck with HOPING you can stop a charge with a lucky hit to the spine, shoulder, etc. You can get several tries at the HEAD as the animal charges, and the "misses" of the head tend to hit the spine, shoulders, heart, etc, and might well have a cumulative effect, slowing down the animal enough to let you brain him.