bearbacker,

I once hunted with an Inuit who preferred the .22 Magnum rimfire for polar bears. He shot them in the heart, and said that after 15 minutes or so they just lay down and went to permanent sleep. He had a .30-30 but said it made too big a hole in the hide.

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck