These questions always seem to tie me up in knots. Should I go into the mountains with a rifle set up for hunting elk out to 400 yards or a rifle set up for stopping an aggressive bear at 10 feet?
One solution I've come up with is hunt with a partner. One of you carries the scoped elk rifle. The other carries an iron-sighted .458 with whatever bullet Phil Shoemaker uses. And you switch when the first guy gets his elk.
