At one time (early 70's) i had a friend that bragged on the .264 Win. mag. "all the time". I happened to be hanging around Cordova Ak. for a summer and what comes along but a Win. model 70 in .264 Win. Mag... It was cheap so i bought it from a guy i had met there. It was the first one i ever fired.

One day in the fall while carrying it i spotted a "quite nice" brown bear in a big gravel pit, and as i was after one, i decided to let him have a 140 grain bullet in the ribs. At the shot, HE took off like a shot, so i let another one fly and he went into the woods. I was sure of my shots but he acted like they were clean miss'!!

After a while i went over there and started tracking him, but he went into some very thick cover and that made me nervous!!! SO, back to camp i go and get my iron sighted savage 110 .338 Win. Mag. loaded with 300 grainers.

It wasn't long after and i was crawling around in the bush looking for him, after about 100 yards it got quite dark out!!! Let's see, wounded brown bear and dark, that didn't sound too good to me, so back to camp i go!!!

One day a stray half grown dog wondered into camp. He was half starved, so i shot a porkeypine, skinned it out, and gave it to him!! MAN, i "instantly" was his best bud!!! He wanted to follow me everyplace!!

SO,

Next morning i'm back out there on my hands and knees looking for sign with my "best Bud" there with me!!! All of a sudden he changed his mind, and decided maybe going the "other direction" was a better idea!!! I kinda took notice of that and figured i had a bear close, and i DID!! About 50 yards further from where i left off the night before, there was my brownie, dead!

Both the 140 grain bullets went into the rib cage about 10" and exploded, and i mean exploded!! YES, he was dead, but that really put me further along on my path of my love for Nosler partitions!!!!

Drilling Man