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Originally Posted by decker
Energy kills I agree, I was looking at getting a nice 45/70 saddle gun for riding in the back country. I wanted to see how much energy it had for stopping power sorta speaking and found that a 190 grain .308 Win has practically the same ft/lbs of energy at 50 yards as a 45/70.
So with that in mind why do so many buy these rifles for bear protection when you could use something as small as a .308?
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I like 500 grains myself...