Use small, fast, light and soft bullets for small, fast, light and soft animals.
Use big, slow, heavy and hard bullets for big, slow, heavy and hard animals.
So brown bears are biggish, fastish, heavyish, and softish... how now?
I make them as not all that big, pretty fast when it wants to be, not that heavy and soft. After running that through my mental calculator I left the .375 with monos in the tent and went for a walk with a .300 RUM (loaded to .300 Win speed so a big small gun that can be pretty fast when it wants to be) stuffed with 180 grain Accubonds. Not all that big, pretty fast, not that heavy and soft. Coastal bear died so fast that it looked like an invisible building had fallen on it.
Last edited by Model70Guy; 08/23/17.
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After running that through my mental calculator I left the .375 with monos in the tent and went for a walk with a .300 RUM (loaded to .300 Win speed so a big small gun that can be pretty fast when it wants to be) stuffed with 180 grain Accubonds. Not all that big, pretty fast, not that heavy and soft. Coastal bear died so fast that it looked like an invisible building had fallen on it.