Bigcountry,

You have just told me about a guy that had NO confidence in his weapon!! What you didn't show me, was that a 300 win mag wasn't big enough to kill a brown bear!!!!

(You are allowed to kill any bear at any time in Akaska "if" that bear is killed to save your own hide!! You do have to skin the bear out and turn in the hide and head!!)

I've told the story here about the guy that shot a brownie with a 378wby several times and didn't get the bear!!~ His conclusion??? 378 wby is too small for bear!!!!!!

A 30-06 with 200 grain Nosler partitions will have no problems dropping the biggest brown bear at reasonable ranges, and a 7 mag with 175 np's is more gun that that!!!

BTW, i hunted Kodiak many times with my 7 Express Rem, along with many of the other costal islands. I knew many guys that deer hunted on Kodiak with mini 14's!!! (i don't agree with 223's for deer)

This all boils down to one word, CONFIDENCE!!!

Drilling Man