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Are the .338s becoming pointless?
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<blockquote data-quote="LRNut" data-source="post: 1980390" data-attributes="member: 3230"><p>I shot a black bear in MN with a 180 gr cup and core bullet; he was facing me head on. Lots of people like to say a black bear is no different than a deer. That bear ran off and a few minutes later I heard the death moan. No blood - not a single drop. Searched until dark. Came back the next day and started sectioning the area (it was bordered by a creek on one side and an ATV trail on the other). After about four hours and 400 black stumps later I found the bear dead. The bullet barely penetrated his lungs; lots of muscle there, even more so on a grizzly and even more so on brown bears, both of which I shot using a .338 WM - it truly is the all around rifle for AK IMO.</p><p></p><p>As for shot angles, I distinctly recall my Yukon bull, the biggest I have killed, was quartering toward me at 285. Shot once, he spun around, shot again, and he went down. My BC moose was facing me at about 150 yards - dropped at the shot. The rest were all broadside. Again, these were all with a .338 WM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LRNut, post: 1980390, member: 3230"] I shot a black bear in MN with a 180 gr cup and core bullet; he was facing me head on. Lots of people like to say a black bear is no different than a deer. That bear ran off and a few minutes later I heard the death moan. No blood - not a single drop. Searched until dark. Came back the next day and started sectioning the area (it was bordered by a creek on one side and an ATV trail on the other). After about four hours and 400 black stumps later I found the bear dead. The bullet barely penetrated his lungs; lots of muscle there, even more so on a grizzly and even more so on brown bears, both of which I shot using a .338 WM - it truly is the all around rifle for AK IMO. As for shot angles, I distinctly recall my Yukon bull, the biggest I have killed, was quartering toward me at 285. Shot once, he spun around, shot again, and he went down. My BC moose was facing me at about 150 yards - dropped at the shot. The rest were all broadside. Again, these were all with a .338 WM. [/QUOTE]
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