Brown Bear and a cow elk. Both were shot with a 285 g Grand Slam bullet, handload. I am normally a Nosler fan but I could not get the 300 g Nosler Partition to shoot very well and the 285's shot awesome.
The brown bear was walking at 28 yards and the bullet went in his armpit (his foot/leg must have been forward when the bullet impacted) he growled, spun and bit the bullet entry hole, fell off a 6' high cliff into a creek where we could see the condensation from his breath rising above the cliff bank. He took a few breaths and it was over. Clean pass through, exit hole about the size of a quarter, MASSIVE internal damage. He was a large brownie, squared 9'8" with no Alaska stretch.
The cow elk was at about 100 yards, same bullet/handload combo. The bullet passed through with little expansion behind her shoulder and she ran 25 yards before piling up. Not a lot of damage, was actually a good meat load.
