The outfit I hunted brown bears with recommended nothing smaller than a 375, with 416 being preferable. I used my 33 G&A and did just fine but they were skeptical about it, being as they had seen poor results with the 338. They also preferred soft bullets, namely Hornady round nosed type.
I get a kick out of stuff like that. Back in the day I remember Jim Carmichael writing about how the .338 impressed him on Cape Buffalo.......
