Getting up close and personal with a grizzly is bad enough with a .338 in your hand, I could only imagine sitting there holding your buck knife. The big coastal brownies are just so huge, you cannot imagine until you have actually seen one. Looking at them in the zoo or in the taxidermist's shope just is nothing compared to having your arms inside a moose knowing that there are bears in the general area, then having them show up. It is not fun, and I know when it happened to me I wanted a howitzer not a .338