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My late uncle told me a story from his grizzly bear hunt when I asked about his bear rug..he said the grizzly was charging close enough with a an army 45 colt emptied the mag on its head and it didn't phase it. So he had to use his 30-06 m1 Garand ..that dropped it. The 45 bullets did not penitrate the skull just the hide

I was thinking it was 4.5 mm for the 17 caliber so I looked it up and I was right

Love my 30-06

450 Bushmaster has the ideal performance and beats out 350 legend and 50 Beowulf as well as 458 socom.

It will never die.

I believe it will always be around like the 30-30.

Ron, the shooting on a hill is simply a horizontal distance. At a 60% slope, COS is .5 so the horizontal distance is 1/2 the distance your range finder tells you. (I am a math teacher, not a good shooter.)

Thank you for this video. You offer a great exposition of the whys and wherefores of the .30-'06 cartridge. Like many others, I believe the .30-'06 cartridge will not go obsolete for many, many years, and for (in no particular order) good reasons: 1) Availability. The ammo is everywhere. 2) Reliability. It gets the job done on virtually everything on the North American continent, with the possible exception of the Polar Bear. 3) Versatility. You can handload for everything from Groundhog to Grizzly. 4) Shootability. Its recoil can be handled by all but the most recoil-sensitive shooters. 5) Historic Ubiquity. There are far too many .30-'06 rifles in the hands of far too many shooters. No one is suddenly going to decide to throw away the Model 70 that has been putting Whitetails in the freezer for three generations.

Sure if your deer are 80 lbs

The best bear advice is don't F with bears they will kick your a** every time. :)

Make more. I’ve been drooling over Weatherby since a child looking through magazines at barber shops. The absolute beauty of an old school Weatherby is hard to top.

I’ve got a brother-in-law that was a bear guide on Kodiak island. They would drag their zodiac up high on the beach and always hoped a bear wouldn’t tear it up while they were away from it.

it was really more like a 30as marlin. had that birch stock no checkering.

Great video. thanks for making it!

There ARE semi-auto .357 mag pistols available also. Most ppl avoid these yet compare recoil ft.lbs of both and choose .. 4" barrelled .357 mag help and with recoil, target acquition. My choice is w/ .357 mag w/ 200 gr, hard-cast, flat nosed, Double Tap ammo and 2 shots practice weekly and now kneeling.

This man speaks a huge universal truth about caliber choice. If you have a hand-cannon that is very hard to recover from for rapid shot placement, versus a smaller but effective caliber that you can successfully put rounds on target (meaning you are inflicting lethal damage to eliminate the threat), then that is the basic difference between life and death, or more succinctly...putting down a charging bear or just hoping you survive being horribly mauled.

Similar to Montgomery wards selling their westernfield shotgun, it was the same as mossberg 500

Go Big Green!

Ron - Which do you recommend in 45-70 for hunting. Marlin (Ruger made) Guide gun or one of the Henry 45-70 like the Big Boy side loading gate etc? What are your thoughts between the Marlin and Henry?

I absolutely love my '03 Springfield. Always wanted one since I was a kid be cause my uncle would take one hunting with us ever time we went. His was sporterized, but it is every bit as accurate as people say they are. Truly a riflemans rifle.

Love both of my 30 06

Marlin is Garbage now...

I'm not going into bear country, so I'm good.

Keith the the back packing , 20mile hike to go camping is full of shit from a healthy 73 year old man.

I own model 70 .225 caliber. The cartridge zeros out at 218 yds with still sufficient killing power. 55 grain bullets are fast and very accurate ref. ballistic tables. Hard to locate ammunition now and very expensive. Reloading bullets impossible to find in Canada.

75gr V-Max goes 3,602 ft/s and produces 2,160 ft-lbs

I bought the 300 wsm recently. Im happy.

Amen Ron, its a hard hitting cartridge with decent ballistics but obsolete and not accurate.

Up here in Canukastan, you can run into a polarbear as far south as Churchill Manitoba. I worked as a safety officer for a company that was asked to do a safety audit on the Alberta govt forrestry. While doing the office portion of the audit, we were escorted through their office I noticed pictures in the hallway of forestry workers with 12 shotguns attached to their back packs. I asked the escort what the shotguns were for, his response was for bears. I noted that the Alberta govt tell members of the public to use bear spray instead of using a shotgun. I wonder why arent these forresty workers not carrying spray instead of shotguns? food for thought.

The 220 Swift carries more energy witha 48gr bullet

Velocity kills!

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I doubt if the bears will listen to your advice, they're an ornery lot.

Negative 45 Raptor it's a ball buster , 308 cut down to 45 cal

Don't go to the 10mm you will get eat on, Eck usmc

NEVER

I carry a o/u 12ga with nickel plated no#1 buck hits hard an does penetrate

At about the 35 minute mark the question was about availability of the 140 grain partition in 6.5 Creedmoor. I just looked at Nosler’s website and they say they are available. $81 for a box of 20. Yikes!

Can a person carve the initials of someone like an ex wife into the cartridge

Perhaps, as a species, we need to imagine danger to fulfill another need - mastery over our environment. A pleasant day's hike in the driving rain and chilling wind might give us mastery stories down the road, but nothing beats mastering mortal danger for an immediate reward. Of the millions of collective man-hours spent in the pursuit of outdoor enjoyment and the millions of people who participate in this activity, the large, fanged, and clawed confrontation that hardly anyone ever encounters with “the bear” is so delicious of an imagining that the rise of the imagination cannot be resisted. So here is to the bear, wherever they may be, and here is to the imagination, hopefully always present and available. As for the chilling wind and driving rain? Sometimes, in Alaska, we can have all three simultaneously.

Soo... is Ron Spomer telling us he will post fewer 30-06 posts from here on :) ?

did you shoot your UA-cam plaque.....lol...

Im curious. Ive eaten lots of black bear but have never had grizzly or brown bear meat. Ive never met anyone thats eaten it either. I been told the Queen Charlotte blacks eat a lot of salmon and their meat doesnt taste that good but I havent tried that. Im wondering if the browns diet of fish would make the meat taste the same. Anyone here have any comments on this.

What a great interview. Too cool dudes just talking about hunting.

If I could get federal trophy bonded tipped for reloading I’d put them in everything but good luck in Canada.

Ron mate, nothing like creative BS, im an Australian and 30-06 is still going strong in my country. We love military cartridges in this country, everyone in Australia owns a 308, 223 and 303. Enjoy your show, but drop the theatre.

You know some pretty tuff women .....fish??? Lol

35 wheelen pump. That's a thick brush hard hitting rifle. I wouldn't use a lever action. I would go with that rifle not a second thought.

Dumb comparison should be compared to the 6mm

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