.308 Win or 30-06 Springfield

Good shooting kills big game not big bullets!!!

But when animals want to eat you thats another story.
Do your family a favour & go a .338 Win Mag or a .300 Weatherby minimum.

As for the .308 vs .3006, well ist a bit like apples some are big some are smaller but they are still apples. Game wont be able to tell the diferance between the two rounds and you prob wont as well.

When it comes to Deer shooting there is not much between th 25-06 up to .338. the out come is always the same, Meat or trophy.
 
j man said:
Good shooting kills big game not big bullets!!!

But when animals want to eat you thats another story.
Do your family a favour & go a .338 Win Mag or a .300 Weatherby minimum.

As for the .308 vs .3006, well ist a bit like apples some are big some are smaller but they are still apples. Game wont be able to tell the diferance between the two rounds and you prob wont as well.

When it comes to Deer shooting there is not much between th 25-06 up to .338. the out come is always the same, Meat or trophy.
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Well said. The thing about Alaska is that some of the critters want to eat YOU! With that in mind, killing the animal is not your major concern... it's killing the animal before it has an opportunity to kill you. Bigger is better for that particular application.

I found this on a quick internet search and found it to be very revealing and informative.

Here in Alaska, the Grizzly is King. Anyone who has ever seriously hunted them will not welcome you along on the hunt with your .308. If you book a Grizzly or Kodiak/Alaska Brown Bear hunt with a guide and tell him you plan to bring your .308, he is most apt to tell you to book with someone else. It just isn't worth the risk. Grizzlies are HUGE animals that can and do take a LOT of shocking power to not only stop them, but even just to slow them down. A heart shot will do that eventually, but even with its heart blown clean away, a grizzly can travel fast enough and far enough to get to you, sometimes before you can fire a second or third shot. As a game warden here in Alaska, I personally measured the distance a Grizzly traveled with no heart-beat....115 yards. (That bear is listed in the Boone & Crockett Club Record Book as being property of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game since it was shot in self defense ....with a .30-06.) Most guides will tell you to stop the bear first and THEN kill it. That usually means breaking down its front shoulders with a heavy bullet with better than average penetration. Bears are scored for the record book by measurements of their skull, so head shots are not considered for that reason and more. The advice to shoot the heart and lungs with your first shot doesn't hold much value because when the bear stands either on all four feet or upright, the heart and lungs aren't side by side to accommodate taking both with a single shot. Check the anatomy of a bear before you consider such a shot. A hard hit bear does one of two things: he turns toward you and attacks, or he heads for the nearest thicket of cover in the tightest tangle of undergrowth he can find. You have to go in there to get him out....by law!!!! Trust me on this one...he WILL be waiting for you when you go after him. Grizzlies are known for ambushing a hunter by circling around on their back trail and waiting for you to come by. When you shoot a Grizzly, you want him down and dead just as quickly as you can possibly make him. A .308 is NOT the way to do that. The most serious big bear hunters in Alaska start with calibers like the .300 Magnum or the .338 Magnum and then work up from there. I recommend you do the same. Good luck!
Source(s):

Been there - Done that! Former Alaska Game Warden - Arctic Region III


Link here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091010034254AAp1hO7
 
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