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Richie53 said:
Most cartridges will kill a bear; few will stop one bent on killing you. The 375 H&H and the excellent .338 Win Mag are excellent choices.
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A friend of a friend had a .378 Wetherby Magnum. He bought it as both a plains game and dangerous game rifle. It was a hell of a musket. It would poleaxe a bear, and at distance, but it only had a sporter weight barrel and by god it kicked.
I used to think the .338 WM had some recoil but that thing was another level.
 
Gimlet said:
A friend of a friend had a .378 Wetherby Magnum. He bought it as both a plains game and dangerous game rifle. It was a hell of a musket. It would poleaxe a bear, and at distance, but it only had a sporter weight barrel and by god it kicked.
I used to think the .338 WM had some recoil but that thing was another level.
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I have a Browning 45/70 Saddle Ring Carbine - more than capable of felling aforementioned Polar Bear. However, the combination of the shorter carbine barrel and the crescent shaped butt make it an uncomfortable gun to fire more than half a dozen times.
I have fired a friends rifle in Lapua .338 Mag which was even more unpleasant.
 
Richie53 said:
I have a Browning 45/70 Saddle Ring Carbine - more than capable of felling aforementioned Polar Bear. However, the combination of the shorter carbine barrel and the crescent shaped butt make it an uncomfortable gun to fire more than half a dozen times.
I have fired a friends rifle in Lapua .338 Mag which was even more unpleasant.
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I can't get on with lever action rifles full stop. Maybe I'd get used to them if I spent some time with one. It's that straight grip that throws me. I know the crescent butt profile you mean. Looks painful, especially if it's got a brass butt plate..
The .338 Lap Mag is a heavy old shell. A friend (same bloke who has the .338WM and .416 Rigby) used to have one in a Sako TRG. He said that wasn't too bad, but TRG are properly heavy rifles with a heavy weight 28" barrel and he had a big muzzle brake on his. Makes a lot of difference. I never got to shoot that rifle because he sold it as there were few ranges where he could use it, and replaced it with a TRG in .308. Obviously not as heavy as a Lap Mag but very heavy compared to your average .308 stalking rifle. Compared to my sporter weight M595 .308, his TRG felt like a .243 at the shoulder. Amazingly accurate. We shot it on the 400 yard range at East Howe in Dorset a few years ago and got bored with shooting the bull out of the board. In the end we played a game whereby we'd take it in turns to place a shot anywhere on the target and the next man had to shoot away the marker spot that they put on in the butts.
 
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