Thread: Karamojo Bell comments

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Interesting. Gotta say those fellas had balls of steel doing what they did, even if it was somewhat misguided with the future in mind.

Somewhere, and I’m buggered if I can find it now, I’ve got a book about Canadian fellas choosing to use .22 cal for grizzlies. It’s a book about building the pipelines / roads and keeping things going in the winter if it rings a bell for anyone. The indig fellas weren’t interested in big bangers, the view was you have one chance to shoot it in the head and you needed to be cool, calm, accurate. Cartridge of choice was the .22-250 Rem.

Inuit Eskimo, "back in the day" favored the .222 because they could do it in small light rifles with ammo that weighed fuck all, on a dog sled or kayak it mattered, and they used it on polar bears! Think I'd want something a whole lot bigger.....

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Inuit Eskimo, "back in the day" favored the .222 because they could do it in small light rifles with ammo that weighed fuck all, on a dog sled or kayak it mattered, and they used it on polar bears! Think I'd want something a whole lot bigger.....

Me too

But those guys who live in the land know their target so well that they can do this

I know an old possumer who mostly shoots with 22 WMR because he has a small rifle just in case he has to put down one of his horses
He's shot some pretty impressive red stags with that little rifle
He explained to me one night in front of a camp fire that he will have seen that stag most days for a week or even months before he goes to shoot it
He knows where he will be on a certain day in certain weather
He knows when he will be there
He knows who will be with him
He knows what he will be going to eat
So he's sitting somewhere along that old stags route to that place and he's there well before the stag
So he gets a very close clear shot with his 22 wmr
Like Bell job done

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Inuit Eskimo, "back in the day" favored the .222 because they could do it in small light rifles with ammo that weighed fuck all, on a dog sled or kayak it mattered, and they used it on polar bears! Think I'd want something a whole lot bigger.....

Seals are the most commonly hunted game, shot in the head at ice breathing holes hence the 222 being carried. My guess is that Muskox and bears cop it in the head too.

he was a big fan of the 7x57 but liked that the 303 had a ten shot mag

I read way back that he would shoot the first elephant then climb up on top to get a bit of height to continue shooting the rest of the heard

absolutly horrid as I love elephants but man what an absolute legend and awesome adventure (and who give a flying fudd what I think about elephants)