I never said the 300 wasn't versital, to the contrary I said it was a very useful cartrige. I never said it wasn't a powerful cartrige, it clearly is. What I said was it isn't as powerful as the 338, and the 338 was more than powerful enough for the big bears. If you need to stop a charge from a wounded bear then give me a 460 Wby or take away his credit card. Bot seriously I'd just as soon have my 1895 45-70 with 420 gr hard cast hand loads, cause it will break heavy bones and penetrate for days. This way you don't have to depend on an expanding bullet to hold together, and this removes one element of Murphy's law. I've saw pictures where barns x bullets even lost their fingers when striking balistic medium at too high volicity, so I wonder if their is a 100% dependable expanding bullet out their.