Is there anything it does that a say 270 or similar, smaller caliber, lighter recoiling rifle will not do?
What say you?
Its not legal in Alaska to hunt Bison with a rifle with performance under 30/06 with bullets 200 grains benchmark.
This isn't shooting a bison on a farm from a fence post but fighting through brush and swamps in close proximity.
There is a story about how a Pipeline 798er tried to engage a bison with a 270 Weatherby and ended up wounding the bison bull which tried to exact revenge. It chased him through the brush for more than 50 minutes before it lost interest.
I am taking my 338 Nosler 48 TGR for my bison hunt this October. My iron sighted 458 Win Whitworth will go along as a camp rifle. Sincerely, Thomas