30/378 Enough for big bears?

c-fbmi said:
It'll work just fine using heavy bullets and keep your ranges down to ..............oh, let's say no more than 5-600 yds!!!!!!!!!!! On your scale of 1-10 it would fall anywhere between 0-7 depending on load and bullet.

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What do you think??? THAT is a big bear @10 1/2 ft, think your 30-378 might have worked?
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That's not a bear . . .

Now that's a bear -
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12' tall 1600 pounds
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Blastattack said:
Pfft. .950 JDJ it the absolute minimum for bears.

Put it this way: there isn't a single game animal in North America that has not been taken by the good old .30-30. I would go so far to say that there isn't a single game animal in the entire world that hasn't been humanely taken by a .30-30, or an equivalent if .30-30 is not available. Shot placement and knowing your maximum range is far more important than the cartridge in your rifle.
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I second that. Good one Blastattack.
 
really look up the history of the 30-378....this caliber is a 600meter rifle ....honestly for the love of god .....its all about shot placement......but even with this caliber you will make all the meat turn black ........i have taken a bear with mine yes i own one ...it ruined both front shoulders....it was 120 yards away....and still ran only 40 yards ..........really a gun this big and your second guessing your self......you need lots of range time to practice shot placement....just my two cents...............and if you still have any doubt !!!!! then start using hand grenades!!!!..................................
 
No disrespect to the OP, but people just get silly when it comes to bears.

I hunted with a fellow who bought himself an expensive custom .375 H&H to hunt black bears in up here in the Yukon. He was never a very good shot with that rifle and missed about three bears that I could remember, and I never saw him actually get one.

I found out years later he owned a Weatherby Mk 5 in .300 Weatherby that he was a crack shot with, and that he had been taking deer and antelope with that rifle out past 400 yards for three decades, and never missed an animal.

When I asked him why the heck he bothered getting the .375 H&H, he told me he wasn't sure the 300 Weatherby was "enough gun" for bears!

Seriously, this stuff happens!
 
Northman999 said:
No disrespect to the OP, but people just get silly when it comes to bears.

I hunted with a fellow who bought himself an expensive custom .375 H&H to hunt black bears in up here in the Yukon. He was never a very good shot with that rifle and missed about three bears that I could remember, and I never saw him actually get one.

I found out years later he owned a Weatherby Mk 5 in .300 Weatherby that he was a crack shot with, and that he had been taking deer and antelope with that rifle out past 400 yards for three decades, and never missed an animal.

When I asked him why the heck he bothered getting the .375 H&H, he told me he wasn't sure the 300 Weatherby was "enough gun" for bears!

Seriously, this stuff happens!
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I wonder what it was about the .375 that caused him to shoot poorly with it? If he was competent with a .300 Weatherby, shooting a .375 is no worse, and in some cases not nearly as obnoxious. Perhaps the scope was mounted too far rearward and he was scared of getting hit, or maybe the stock was too long increasing the felt recoil, or perhaps it had a muzzle brake that hurt his ears. Perhaps he just thought it was a big gun, as in more gun than he could handle, and therefore forgot all about marksmanship. The .375 is the "go to" cartridge for Africa simply because most people shoot it well. But poor shooting occurs more frequently than we like to admit regardless of the cartridge the rifle is chambered for.
 
Boomer said:
I wonder what it was about the .375 that caused him to shoot poorly with it? If he was competent with a .300 Weatherby, shooting a .375 is no worse, and in some cases not nearly as obnoxious. Perhaps the scope was mounted too far rearward and he was scared of getting hit, or maybe the stock was too long increasing the felt recoil, or perhaps it had a muzzle brake that hurt his ears. Perhaps he just thought it was a big gun, as in more gun than he could handle, and therefore forgot all about marksmanship. The .375 is the "go to" cartridge for Africa simply because most people shoot it well. But poor shooting occurs more frequently than we like to admit regardless of the cartridge the rifle is chambered for.
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I never could figure out all the missing in the field with the .375 H&H either, but was there to witness solid sub MOA shooting at the range, and bears running off unhit from broadside shots at 250 yards.

Like you mentioned; this does seem to happen a bit more than people let on...

And yes, my experience is that the 300 weatherby IS a bit more ornery than the .375 H&H.
 
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