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This ought to get the other bear photos from the expedition:

http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scrip...amp;keywords=Captain+George+E.+Mack+bear

Bruce

This is the museum with the pictures of the Montreal Home Gaurd standing at inspection with their Savage MHG rifles that I posted last year.

Some really good OT stuff to look at too.

Were is all the ice? Must be global warming!

I tend to agree with people being brainwashed into needing a super-magnum to hunt with. In one of the other forums online, a guy posted tons of pictures of one of his grandfathers (I believe) who was a trapper up in the wilds of Canada for more than 50 years. Can you guess what he used all that time on everything from rabbits and porcupines to bear and moose? A Remington Model 8 in .25 Remington. He sold off most of his guns before he moved out there, and bought a Model 8 new in about 1910. And you see that same gun in just about every picture for the next 50 years. The animals have not grown ablative ceramic plates under their skin over the past few decades. I have no problems hunting everything short of the big bears with my .300 Savage. The only reason I would use something larger on them is because I am not THAT good of a hunter, and would want something with a bit more energy going down range. That being said, if all I had with me was my Savage, and I had a shot, I would definately take it.

-Mb

djs, the .303 Savage was definitely a better bear gun than the .30-30 at the beginning of the 20th century. When the .30-30 came out it used a 160 grain bullet at about 1950fs, the .303 used 190 grains. It was definitely a better penetrator. Today the .30-30 uses a 170 and the .303 comes with a 180, so the difference between them has pretty much disappeared.