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Harold Johnson, who designed the .50 alaskan on a m71 Winchester aciton, called it his bear stopper. He was from Cooper's Landing, Alaska. His modified 450gr. jacketed bullets ALWAYS exited the brown bears he shot, not matter from which direction. North or South, including quartering shots - all exited. He used a cut-off 750 gr. boattailed steel cored .5 browning bullets at 450gr. and reversed them for cup-pointed solid bullets. He also said the cavitation and internal damage was something to behold, due to the cup point. That was at a mere 1,850 to 1,900fps muzzle velocity. Good enough for me.
; You just made up my mind on what to do with my own 'spare' Ruger #1.
Daryl, a small point, but the rifle Johnson used was a 1886 Winchester originally chambered for .50-110 and rebarreled using a .50 BMG barrel. He still had it when I interviewed him about a year before his death when he gave me some of the details about this and his other guns. Fascinating fellow. He died in 1998.
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