Originally Posted by
SingleShotNeeded
I'm with the two rifle for all North American game philosophy...get a
comfortable, flat shooting .270 for most of it and a .375 Holland & Holland
for your northern moose, elk, and big bears.
Its always interesting to note that the further away from moose country you get, the bigger a gun it takes to kill them. Where I live, people actually get to hunt moose on a regular basis and there are more guys carrying non magnums than there are people packing magnums. We cant hunt grizzly in Alberta but there are plenty around, so the protection aspect is more than just hypothetical. I've killed a half dozen moose and couple elk with the .270 win. I've tried most of the more popular "all around cartridges" and prefer the .270, never seen any need for a magnum. Bears just don't do it for me but if I ever need to shoot a grizzly with the .270 I'm sure it will do the trick about as well as anything else. I want to try a 338-06 some day, and maybe that will unseat the .270 as "king of the all arounders" in my books.