ORIGINAL: Tony Orlando and Dawn
I'll have to go along with the Alaskian Game Dept. on caliber recommendations.
Too many hunters have read all about "dangerous game" in the hunting rags or watched so many movies, they think you can't hunt Africa or Alaska with anything less than a 375 H&H or 458 magnum. If I were going on a hunt that I knew would have me facing charging grizzlies at 20 steps, sure I'd pack a .458, that's no where typical bear hunting conditions.
In Bear country when you shoot an elk or deer and the Bear relates that to as "The Dinner Bell", heis going to maul you to death for that animal. In the high country when you go with pack horses, you better have at least a .338. Grizz's love horsemeat! Most guides will not take you with less than a .338 up to the high country.