Remember this bear that weighed in at about 1100 pounds and was shot with a .338 Win mag at ten yards head on.
Would you want to take on this bear with a .308 at ten yards?
I hope trouthunter doesn't mind me reposting this but his buddy that killed this brute had to shoot it five times with a .300 Win mag before it finally gave up the ghost.
You hear all the time that the .243 is too small a cartridge to hunt 200 pound whitetails but in this thread the .308 is an acceptable brown bear cartridge???????????? Am I missing something here?
You all can go hunt 1000+ pound predators with a .308 all you want but if I ever get the chance to hunt brown bears I will be toting my .338 RUM or possibly something even larger.
Remember there is a reason that larger cartridges were invented and these are the reasons.