338 win mag vs brown bear books

Grizzly, brown and polar bear cartridges by chuck hawks. Back home in dixie just got back from a brown bear hunt. All other things being equal, a bigger bullet will make a bigger hole, cause more tissue damage. Like someone else said, make a good first shot and then keep shooting. I did use barnes xbullets for awhile and they were excellent as well. American rifleman what im shooting nowsako 85 brown bear. Heres a short black bear hunt with my friends, dion and nev. The outfitter uses 210 partitions federals load, i think while my guide uses the 250 grain partition in the federal load. Quite a number of times i watched a black tail deer get hit and a brown bear was on the deer before the hunter had chambered another round. Many alaskans including myself have taken brown bear with the. If you are going to hunt brown bear on the alaska peninsula or kodiak island, a. They have all been proven in the field and have done well and ammo is not very hard to come by on any of them. The great bears of north america are the largest land predators on earth. One wellrespected outfitter in alaska used to require his bear guides to carry a.