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I believe Don killed a bear with a 308...............
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I agree with all the sage advice already posted. But I just find it so interesting that young shooters and most women continually carry and shoot calibers WE would turn up our noses at! We've had this conversation many times before, eg. location, location, location plus premium bullets spell success for youngsters and women. On very large and potentially dangerous game. Conversely we have hundreds of threads here that strongly recommend large "magnum" calibers for elk, grizzlies, brown bear and lesser big game. Did big game animals take steroids or did the firearm makers and writers excel in marketing?
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Actually I thought Don scolded it into submission after wayward parents let their children enter the same zip code with the bear.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Some fella that doesn't post here much at all anymore used to say something to the effect of
placement, boolit, caliber.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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maybe Karamajo<sp> Bell hunting-killing elephants in Africa.. As I recalled he used the 6,5x55 too..Jim Nope, no 6.5x55. Walter Dalrymple Maitland (Karamojo) Bell started his ivory-hunting career with a .303 British. Later he adopted both the .275 Rigby (7x57 Mauser) and the 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer as elephant-shooting tools, after he sectioned several elephant skulls and precisely determined brain location. He used only round-nose solid bullets and depended on accurate shot placement and penetration. Two factors that are equally important today .
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I dated a gal from AK some years ago whose father shot a Brown with his 30-06.
Don I visited the wildlife museum in Anchor Point a few years ago; it has all kinds of big game from around the world. I asked the hunter's wife what he used to shoot the hippo. She smiled and said "He only uses one gun to hunt with, an 03 model in .30/06."
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That guy in Africa killed 800+ elephants with a 7x57. They are loading the .45-70 now that shoots through two cape buffalos. One of my friends in highschool dropped a large buck like a rock by shooting it in the back of the head with a .22LR or maybe a .22Short as he was coon hunting. Huge numbers of polar bears were taken with 7.62Russian, 7x57, and .303British. What's not to believe about a .308 taking a big grizzly bear.
George
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I dated a gal from AK some years ago whose father shot a Brown with his 30-06.
Don I visited the wildlife museum in Anchor Point a few years ago; it has all kinds of big game from around the world. I asked the hunter's wife what he used to shoot the hippo. She smiled and said "He only uses one gun to hunt with, an 03 model in .30/06." This is just a guess, but there's a chance he shoots that old Springfield pretty well.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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He was out of town that day, his wife was running the museum collecting the few dollar entry fee and interacting with the people. It was a nice way to spend a few hours. Some of the taxidermy work is pretty old but the overall collection is really wonderful. If anyone ever gets to AP, try to stop in there.
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At the end of the Nabesna Road the Ellis family has a trophy room they always used to let folks wander through... If they still do it is worth the time...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I am still impressed with the 30" plus brownie at the B concourse in ANC. What a lunker!
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If anyone ever gets to AP, try to stop in there. That's usually "fly over" country, but I need to stop sometime.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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