Mike:
I would love to "guide" grizzly hunts, but state law forbids it. I would have to go through the headache of acquiring a state guiding liscense...no interest in that torture.

Besides, I enjoy exploring as much as hunting, and would find it very difficult to pick a single "territory" and sticking to it.

On the other hand, it's common practice to have a "guest" along when hunting griz.

Though a tad on the light side, a .300 mag, will suffice for griz (especially inland griz, which are significantly smaller than their coastal cousins), though if given a choice, I would definatly pick the .338, which is my personal hunting rifle caliber.

The advantage of the .338 is it's bullet weight.

Seems that most of the really close encouters with griz occur when you are not hunting them.

But this does not mean that one cannot stalk to very close (archery distances) to bear when needed.

As mentioned earlier in this post, when a bear is feeding intently, and the wind is in your favor, you can easily work yourself into hair rasing distance.

In fact, there will probably be times when you are sitting there with your bow and punny little arrow (or buckshot), wondering what the heck your doing so close



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