For brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula, tags can be bought over the counter. The seasons are every other fall on the odd years and every other spring on the even years. For brown bears and grizzlies, nonresidents are required to be guided. Same for sheep and mountain goats. For deer, caribou and moose, a guide is not required.
For me from 35 remington on up.
From the regs the family member must be within a second degree of kindred. So the in-law counts, cousin doesn't. I copied the list below
That seems really odd to me, I've had a couple in-laws I'd happily feed to a bear.
That falls under bear baiting. Whole different set of regs there. Ha ha
I have talked with several guys about this as well since my post. I think the biggest difference is bullet weight. Several guys have had the same experience you did with just stepping up to the heavier bullets. Funny enough they had also gone with same bullet you did and instead of finding bullets like I did, they had pass thru shots. I would also not hesitate to take my 300 back if I hadn’t bought the bigger guns, but I would also take a 200 AB or an aframe, or even a 220grain bullet. Everyone said the same thing, heavier bullet is everything. I have been contemplating taking the 300 back this summer for my wife and kids to use, with a suppressor I think it would be very manageable. At the same time the size of the animals they are taking doesn’t really need a 300win mag. The 180’s killed just fine, but 2 holes would have left more blood sort of thing. Thanks for sharing your experiences with the 200grn in bullet. Confirming what others have said as well
I shoot 200gr Partitions in my 300WM. I have taken 6 or 7 animals with that combo (1 feral hog, 1 coyote, and several whitetail deer) and all of them dropped in their tracks. It might be due to the relatively softer front section of the Partitions, but 200gr bullets are my go to in 300 WM
A medium bore is larger than .30 and smaller than .40 caliber. .284 does not meet the criteria. Maybe you only own one rifle and think it is good for everything. Sort of like the builder that only owns a hammer so everything looks like a nail.
We tend to get a bit jaded here, but to a great swath of America anything larger than a .30-06 is a frigging cannon.
In early America it was considered a small game rifle.
I guess if you consider the .223 to be a deer cartridge and a .243 (ugh) to be suitable for black bears and elk (yikes!) a .284 could be considered a medium bore. Just don't tell Bob Nelson you're going to do it!
