Why do you need an ...excuse...to build a .375 ouch & ouch???
I have one and think it mandatory for every serious riflenut to have one and, if I went to Alaska specifically to hunt large bears, that is what I would take, no question. Actually, last spring, my .375 was being restocked and my partner got a Grizzly draw up on the Alaska/B.C. border and asked me to come along as "backup", so, I packed my Browning 1886 SRC in .45-70, using handloads almost identical to those Phil uses in his identical rifle. This is a really useful rifle in bear country, but, boy, it boots ya!
I think that you NEED a .375 and should enter into domestic negotiations to obtain one....could be Kootenay Sasquatches moving south into Montana for the winter.....ya gotta be prepared!
