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.....