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<blockquote data-quote="35 Whelen" data-source="post: 1918499" data-attributes="member: 105990"><p>If I am ever lucky enough to afford to go to Alaska I would take my 35 Whelen and my 400 Whelen. If I was to be hunting in open country I'd take 2 of my 35 Whelens or a 35 Whelen and my 338 Win. Mag. From what I have heard most guides like you to bring at lest a 300 mag. for brown bears, but prefer a 338 or bigger if you can shoot it good. With the powders of today you can get the 35 Whelen to have right at the same muzzle velocity with a 250 gr. bullet as the 338 Win. mag. I don't have a problem with the recoil of the 338 Win. mag. but my 35 an 400 Whelens (witch are stout recoiling especially the 400 with 400gr. bullets) have a shove and not the sharp kick of a magnum. For Kodiak brown bears where shoots are more then likely be close and you want them down fast I'd take my 400 Whelen, with Hornady 400gr. DGX bullets I'm getting 2150fps, and with Swift 400gr. A-Frames I'm getting 2177fps. This is just a head of the old 450/400 witch was the most used all around cartridge in Africa for every thing before the 375 H&H came out. So I would not be concerned with not having enough gun. </p><p>This is what I'd do but with what you have and are planning to take I think you will do just fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="35 Whelen, post: 1918499, member: 105990"] If I am ever lucky enough to afford to go to Alaska I would take my 35 Whelen and my 400 Whelen. If I was to be hunting in open country I'd take 2 of my 35 Whelens or a 35 Whelen and my 338 Win. Mag. From what I have heard most guides like you to bring at lest a 300 mag. for brown bears, but prefer a 338 or bigger if you can shoot it good. With the powders of today you can get the 35 Whelen to have right at the same muzzle velocity with a 250 gr. bullet as the 338 Win. mag. I don't have a problem with the recoil of the 338 Win. mag. but my 35 an 400 Whelens (witch are stout recoiling especially the 400 with 400gr. bullets) have a shove and not the sharp kick of a magnum. For Kodiak brown bears where shoots are more then likely be close and you want them down fast I'd take my 400 Whelen, with Hornady 400gr. DGX bullets I'm getting 2150fps, and with Swift 400gr. A-Frames I'm getting 2177fps. This is just a head of the old 450/400 witch was the most used all around cartridge in Africa for every thing before the 375 H&H came out. So I would not be concerned with not having enough gun. This is what I'd do but with what you have and are planning to take I think you will do just fine. [/QUOTE]
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