When I hunted musk ox in Canada quite a while back, my guide was an older Inuit (as they call themselves in Canada) whose favorite polar bear rifle was a .22 Rimfire Magnum. And no, he didn't use sled dogs to surround bears and then head-shoot 'em. Instead he stalked close enough to put a bullet broadside in the heart. After a while the bears just "went to sleep." He'd taken a number that way, and preferred the .22 Mag-a-num (as he called it) because it didn't tear nearly as big a hole in the valuable hide as his .30-30.
Funny you should mention that... I just read your post, and last night read your story in Life of the Hunt in which David Ameganik was featured. Great book, btw.
You have to admire the practicality of these Inuit hunters.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
