Thread: Alaska Trip 2012

Gillie, just a question
Was Jake carrying a rifle, and if he was, what make and calibre.
cheers.

Originally Posted by jakewire

Gillie, just a question
Was Jake carrying a rifle, and if he was, what make and calibre.
cheers.

Been a little while but if memory serves it was a NULA in 416Rem. Pretty sure he has a different rifle now - a ruger guide gun in 416Rem that comes in at under 6lbs

Originally Posted by Gillie

Been a little while but if memory serves it was a NULA in 416Rem. Pretty sure he has a different rifle now - a ruger guide gun in 416Rem that comes in at under 6lbs

Thanks Gillie, just making sure he was looking after you.

How do you think a 9.3 x64 using Hornady 286 sp rp would have performed in that situation.

Originally Posted by jakewire

Thanks Gillie, just making sure he was looking after you.

Looking after us!?! Ha! After the first days glassing we went back to camp for the night. Jake had a salmon there that he filleted for us for tea that night. He just threw the salmon carcase down the bank and it landed about 10m from Dad and I's tent. We joked with him that it might encourage a bear around the camp and that might be dangerous - his reply was "if its on its own and your worried then just shoot it and at least we won't have to carry it far to the plane"!
Long before the hunt I asked Jake if he carried a pistol while in the hills for bear defence - he said no he never had. He said I was his bear defence and I had better not screw that job up! Yep, he looked after us fine - hence the reason we are going back with him!

Originally Posted by jakewire

How do you think a 9.3 x64 using Hornady 286 sp rp would have performed in that situation.

A 9.3x64 would have been fine - as stug says a 3006 with good projectile choice would have been fine. It comes down to the same variables as normal - hit them well with a suitable projectile.
With bears (keep in mind mine was only about 7ft - big bears will go more than 10ft) I would go with a premium solid or partition type projectile - the bonded core bullets will work as well but in my extremely limited experience Jake mentioned the 260gr accubonds broke up in the wound more than he would have been happy with. In 9.3 you could look at the 286gr Swift A-Frame, or one of the premium solid projectiles (Nosler, Norma, etc.).