Alaskan Guides prefer pump 12 gauges with sabot slugs and marlin guide gun lever rifles in 450 marlin or 45-70.
Use enough gun. Let’s not go to reduculous limits because it is the most ‘politically incorrect gun’. Enjoy your AR for what it can do.
When charged by a bear you shoot the nearest tourist in the knee then run like hell.
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I am guessing that these hunters were hunters for food and probably didn't own another rifle, because they cannot afford another rifle. I do not know them nor do I live their lifestyle, so I cannot comment. Having said that, I read an article that did talk about how popular the AR15 is up North. It is relatively inexpensive, easy to fix, accurate and very reliable.
Yeah, the caliber sucks, and I wouldn't even use it against the 100lb swamp deer in my area. But then again, Karamoja Bell (arguably one of the finest elephant hunters in history) liked to use the .256 Gibbs (and the .303, and the 7x57 and .... almost any another small bore round made at the turn of the 20th century) for killing elephants. And Bell was known for one shot kills.