RE: need advice on caliber
Looking for the most speed & power in a .30 caliber? Try the .300/.378 Weatherby.........
In three years of traipsing through the wilderness of Alaska carrying a .270 Winchester carbine, all the "hunting experts" I came across said "why are you carrying that varmint rifle??"
Whenever I killed a bear, caribou or moose with it, they all would say "well, a bear (moose, etc.) is nothing but a VARMINT!!"