I forgot about Sask, most of their hunts are bait hunts
Brown Bear with a 358 STA.
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PaLuke
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I received and mounted the scope today. Hopefully I'll get to shoot it early next week. I went with H-4831 SC and Federal 215 primers. Thanks again for the replies.
1wildcatfan
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I know I'm using 4831. Will have to search for my data.
Was looking for A-frames to use. No where to be found. Spoke to the Swift production manager last Feb. He said they did not have any .358 production planned through October. Haven't spoken with him since.
I've never hunted brown bears, but perhaps someone has some experience with Hammer bullets. I've seen multiple reports of great success on animals up to Cape buffalo size. General consensus is small exit wounds, but deep penetration with high percentage of pass throughs, plus more internal damage than traditional mono bullets due to the petals breaking off and creating their own separate wound channels.
memtb
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For a great deal of information on this bullet take a "lookiesee" at https://hammerbullets.com/hammertime/
They have data constantly coming in from across the world. A great deal coming from Australia, with their use on many animals large to small! memtb
comfisherman
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Had dinner last week with a friend who just left my village. With this topic in mind we tried to figure what killed the problem Bears this summer. It was an abnormal year, normal is probably 3 from May to October. Usually a young one or two in spring that's looking for a meal and an old one that's still hungry in the fall. This season it was 13.... it was a combination of mild peninsula winters the last few years with a downturn in mixed salmon stocks this year. Downturn years always push the numbers up, but it was definitely several factors stacked up.
With the shape of the village it's usually the same couple guys that do the majority of the work. We figure at least 10 were shot with a 30-06 or 338 win mag with whatever was handy when the guys went to town. At least three were by a guy who's likely used trophy bonded bear claws and a 375 he. That particular fellow likes that bullet in that rifle and we put a lifetime of them on a tender one spring about a decade ago for him.
Heard rumor the village south of us hit 20 so we weren't exactly big league numbers.
It's not really rocket surgery, over the years many many bears have been whacked with heavy for caliber heavy jacket or bonded lead bullets. I'm sure new mono's are fine as well.
This thread will go 30 pages of endless possibilities, but there is a hillbilly down the street who's whacked a lifetime of brown bears with a ruger 77 a blister pack scope and remington core lok....
Don't over think it, pick something and practice some offhand shooting with it.
With the shape of the village it's usually the same couple guys that do the majority of the work. We figure at least 10 were shot with a 30-06 or 338 win mag with whatever was handy when the guys went to town. At least three were by a guy who's likely used trophy bonded bear claws and a 375 he. That particular fellow likes that bullet in that rifle and we put a lifetime of them on a tender one spring about a decade ago for him.
Heard rumor the village south of us hit 20 so we weren't exactly big league numbers.
It's not really rocket surgery, over the years many many bears have been whacked with heavy for caliber heavy jacket or bonded lead bullets. I'm sure new mono's are fine as well.
This thread will go 30 pages of endless possibilities, but there is a hillbilly down the street who's whacked a lifetime of brown bears with a ruger 77 a blister pack scope and remington core lok....
Don't over think it, pick something and practice some offhand shooting with it.
