Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Minimum 'caliber' for Kodiak Brown Bear?

Because "lots of practice" involved two sessions and three boxes of ammo.....maybe. (Boy, that thing has a nasty kick to it!)

Because getting up close - or even just seeing a real live moving bear- can set ones adrenal glands in motion.....

Because those fuzzy walls of hair don't have the same handy distinctions or definition that one might be accustomed to finding for aiming aids on ungulates.

Because it's more difficult to see the spot your guide told you to aim for since you can only see part of the animal at any give time in your scope.

Because there's nothing to hold the damn mule-kicker steady with on the pathetic, spongy excuse for terra firma which big bears seem to hang out upon.


I am always amazed when I hear that one of my friends informs me that "so-and-so" whom he guided recently gave him a (insert a big-cased magnum chambered rifle here) as a tip. (I don't know anyone who has been given a 7Mag, 30-06, Whelen, or anything like that; it's always been a 375 or a Weatherby or Ultra-something. As recently as last fall one fellow I know well was even set up with a nice outfit for gunning........Taliban perhaps. )

Some people don't understand that it takes more than money to collect a bear trophy.