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I'm not familiar with the Berger bullet you mention but I generally hunt grizzly every spring and have taken two grizzlies.

I used to use Partitions and then tried AFrames. They seem to retain weight well for penetration and leave a big hole. I recovered one AFrame that busted up some bone, shredded some lung and heart, punched through the far shoulder blade, and got hung up on the hide on the far side of one grizzly. It was a 275 grain 338, on recovery it weighed 269.5 grains and expanded up pretty good.

I think a regular bullet will work fine until it hits something like a grizzly shoulder and then it may or may not.

308, 3006, 338, etc this topics been beat to death. I think your 308 would do the job, for the money involved I would just elect to use a premium bullet.

Here is a picture of AFrame I recovered.




This is a picture of one at about 100 feet. The wind was blowing in our face hard so he could not smell us although he knew something was close. He lived because he was on the wrong side of our tag boundary.