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Whats the longest shot you would take on a brown bear
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2737587" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>Once upon a time many years ago I was in a gun shop during the middle of Deer Season. I was looking at a Win Model 70 in 30-06 as an addition to my Remington Model 600 in .243. While I was there a guy came in wanting to trade his Win Model 70 in 30-06 (strange things happen) for a 458 Win Mag. His story was that the 30-06 was inadequate to drop a Wisconsin Whitetail? The story was that he shot a big buck 4 times and it never showed any signs of the 30-06 being enough rifle to knock it down. Well to make a long story short, he bought the 458 mag, a box of ammo, had a Leupold scope installed and bore sighted then headed out the door to knock down the next whitetail he came across. I don't know if he ever sighted in the scope on the 458 and didn't care because I ended up buying this trade in. I shot the factory barrel out of it and had a custom stainless match barrel installed. When I got out of competitive shooting the first time I sold that rifle, with some 4500 rounds through the barrel and still shooting 1/2 moa or less groups to another competitive shooter and, Oh by the way it still knocks down a whitetail with one shot and holds the 10 - X ring at 600 yards. </p><p>Keeping with the thoughts about shooting long distance at a bear hunt? If you are not confident enough in your abilities to place a bullet where it needs to go up close and personal under pressure, you don't deserve to be hunting the quarry you are going to be shooting at. It's kind of the difference between murder and self defense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2737587, member: 118816"] Once upon a time many years ago I was in a gun shop during the middle of Deer Season. I was looking at a Win Model 70 in 30-06 as an addition to my Remington Model 600 in .243. While I was there a guy came in wanting to trade his Win Model 70 in 30-06 (strange things happen) for a 458 Win Mag. His story was that the 30-06 was inadequate to drop a Wisconsin Whitetail? The story was that he shot a big buck 4 times and it never showed any signs of the 30-06 being enough rifle to knock it down. Well to make a long story short, he bought the 458 mag, a box of ammo, had a Leupold scope installed and bore sighted then headed out the door to knock down the next whitetail he came across. I don't know if he ever sighted in the scope on the 458 and didn't care because I ended up buying this trade in. I shot the factory barrel out of it and had a custom stainless match barrel installed. When I got out of competitive shooting the first time I sold that rifle, with some 4500 rounds through the barrel and still shooting 1/2 moa or less groups to another competitive shooter and, Oh by the way it still knocks down a whitetail with one shot and holds the 10 - X ring at 600 yards. Keeping with the thoughts about shooting long distance at a bear hunt? If you are not confident enough in your abilities to place a bullet where it needs to go up close and personal under pressure, you don't deserve to be hunting the quarry you are going to be shooting at. It's kind of the difference between murder and self defense. [/QUOTE]
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