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Do NOT agree!!!
Posted by Brian Richardson on Jan 31 2006
The old Shoe fits wear it if ya like!
A couple of premises here to mull over or hammer in...
"If anyone knows Brown Bears it's Phil" --- in reality this is a BIG "IF" and anybody that says they “KNOW” a wild animal serves to be fed my reasonable criticisms.
“I make a living cleaning up messes” --- If this is indeed the case he should give up the trade or as mother might say pick up his room!
“I would happily hunt the rest of my life with an accurate 7 1/2# 30-06. I've taken truck loads of game with mine from 10# groundhogs to 1000# Brown Bear with mine. The paranoia about brown bears is way overblown.” --- I’m gonna have to pick this apart by stating “hunting” as a particular and not potential for aggressive behavior or involving charges of any nature! There’s a world of difference!!! Also define fear for each and every person please. While you are at it characterize universal circumstances!!!
The quote is just flat wrong on Brown Bear guides choosing the .30-‘06 today…--- there was a qualifier “personal using” but that’s’ way different isn’t it!
“all you are looking at is one or two bears in a lifetime then anything from the .270 thru the .338 will fit the bill perfectly. My vote is with the 30-06 because I have one that I have used all over the globe…” --- Well here again it would therefore be prudent on a once in a lifetime opportunity to go with a higher percentage stopper (maybe the same cartridge and rife your guide caries) for all scenarios encountered. Make them show ahead of the hunt that they can shoot the gun from different positions more or less to his liking and take the edge off the messes before they crop up. Curious what he used “all over the globe for animals over 1000 pounds… aren’t you?
“anything over a .375 usually ego.” --- So what is he claiming? Going after Big Coastal Brown Bear w/ no minimum or a .270 builds character? Sorry… allow me to lend some traditional shoe-go. African Big Game has a long history for minimum Caliber --- Alaskan Guides and hunters should consider sensible guidelines tho’ not required by the State.
I will tell you the facts can be read into a whole lot and certainly a little too confidently misunderstood. I will also relate to you that back in the mid 1950s my Dad in fact shot his Coastal Brown Bear using a Win Model 70 .30-’06 topped w/ a K4 Weaver. (That’s what he had, but his Alaska dream rifle was a .333OKH) The bear was at close range, stood up on its back two legs, and at that instant Dad said he made a good one shot kill - he said it was the luckiest shot of his life when it struck the Big Bear dead center in the top of the spinal column shattering the vertebrae and causing the Monster to fall into a forward slump - the Bear never moved. Guides he new in the day hauled around .375 H&H, 458 Watts and such… Not .30-‘06 and the .338 was not quite a newborn. My Dad is now 73 years old, hikes daily with the dog on the same mountain I discovered as a boy, gets a ski pass and skis regularly, and now carries a 20” stainless/synthetic Model 70 in .375 H&H w/ his lucky number 3 decorating the floor plate.
Shoemaker appears to have his feet up on this one… or at least several holes in his socks –
Brian Richardson
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