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From my point of view though if a person can kill one with a bow and arrow, then pretty much any rifle will do.
Uuuummmmmmmmm........I see what you're trying to say there but you're not comparing apples to apples. An arrow and a bullet kill in different manners so you can't bring a bow and arrow to a gun fight.
Arrows kill by hemorrhaging and bullets kill by trama. (Although granted they do sometimeskill by hemorrhaging if the trama doesn't work) But just not the same. I certainly would not agree that because an arrow is effective that any old rifle cartridge will do.
I agree when an arrow enters an animals body it usually cuts a wound channel at least 1 inch in diameter. Where as a small caliber bullet may leave a wound channel 1/2 in diameter but relies on the destructive force of the bullets velocity and extreme energy delivery to kill an animal.
So can you kill a large animal with a small caliber weapon? Yes. Can a larger caliber weapon kill more "efficiently"? Yes. If you don't believe me go out and shoot two 90 lbs. does, one with a .223 one with a 50 bmg and compare the two. Both just as dead as the other but the one shot with the 50 was killed more "efficiently" though not for the table.
Yeah...I think the difference here would be he isn't talking about shooting a 90lb deer. If it's all the same to you fellars, I wouldn't want my back up pardner to be carring his Matthews with some sick slick tricks either, no matter how ultimately deadly that combo may be.
Dead is dead, ok. And if hunting an animal capable of killing me, I am sure my family would take solace in the fact that the grizz that killed me died soon after due to my having placed my .223 bullet in the proper place.
Just for my own use, I would go big. Unlike most that post on this site, I am not Dirty Harry/John Wayne and my ability to always place the bullet exactly where it needs to be can be compromised by a multitude of factors, not the least of which is finding myself on the receiving end of BEAR CHARGE. The elements, lack of a bench or sand bags, exertion....all play in to the "field conditions" shot.
No, I wish I was immune to all these things like so many here are, but alas, I am just a nerve addled, mere mortal,hunter trying to harvest an animal and doing my best not to be harvested.
Hope my betters out there will allow me my compensation and not think to little of me? I have no desire to hunt grizz, but if I did, my decision would be whether to take my 338RUM or get something bigger!!!!