Jeff: I know two folks personally who have had the grizzly sceario referenced above....I am happy to say I have not BTDT..
..but an old Idaho pal found himself in a disagreement with a grizzly over a cache of sheep meat.She came for him at about 25-30 yards,and a single 130 Bitterroot from a 270 ended that circus.
Bruce_____ from back here took a longish crack at a grizzly up in BC IIRC with a 270,and due to angle, merely grazed the front of the chest.He went to look for the bear(a boar)who popped out of the willows at 35 yards or so.
A 130 gr Nosler Partition ended that one,too.
These were both real, not contrived, situations....
I could care less which of the two (7RM or 338 Federal)I was carrying under those circumstances...placement and good bullets would count for more than any bore size difference...and if I wanted a larger bore under those circumstances, a 338 bore would not be it.I'd have a 375...
