Let's say my wanderlust has finally overtaken my rational mind, and I decided to try and get to Point Barrow, Alaska (the northernmost point in the United States).
The road supposedly ends about 3 miles short of the point, and from there, it's a hike through a sand/pebble beach to the point. A lot of the literature I'm reading online says it's too dangerous to hike alone, since there is the ever-present threat of polar bears.
Fuck paying some guy with a 4-wheeler $500 to haul my ass out there, I'm /hasguns/ and can check rifles in my luggage. What's the best weapon for stopping a polar bear in its tracks? Would love to take my AR since it's light and comfy, but do I really need muh stoppin' powah to keep myself safe from an angry polar bear? Would my FAL (slightly heavier) be sufficient?
I know at least ONE of you motherfuckers has got to live in Alaska with satellite internet or some shit, so any actual polar bear encounter stories would be appreciated too.
wouldnt the traditional weapon be a .45-70 levergun?
I don't own one of those (yet (I do not want to pay .45-70 prices without reloading))
Digits tell me you need a flintlock rifle and tricot error hat. the bears only truly respect this combo, and will charge anyone not sporting it.
For me its the mcchicken.
yeah
FAL is absolutely sufficient, just use some heavy 175gr or 180gr soft points/ballistic tips. If you really prefer the lightweight of the AR for your hike get a 450bushmaster upper and load it with 250gr or 300gr soft points/ ballistic tips.
I hope you have a great trip anon, take pics and post a thread on here or on PrepHole
Thanks for the info anon, I'll have to grab some of that heavy shit and experiment with the gas settings. The hypothetical trip would have to wait until the spring or summer months since I'm not retarded enough to fly to the artic circle this time of year; even in July, Barrow supposedly only reaches the low 40s.
Side tangent, but I wonder how the rifle will perform in the cold? Supposedly the T48 FAL was edged out in the M14 trials by Springfield's T44, through the Springfield guys cheated and used a cold chamber to figure out where the gun was sticking so they could tune it ahead of time.
For the cold weather you'll want to use a really light oil on the moving parts and use it sparingly. Something like Break-free or Militec. Heavier lubes will gunk up in cold weather and potentially cause a malfunction, which is the last thing you want when a hungry horny polar bear barreling down on you
Uh, I use 0W-20 for everything since that's what my car takes. I suppose for an extreme case I should probably look into the lightest stuff I can find.
According to this, the Danes still actively use 1917 Eddystone rifles, alongside Glock 20s, which is fucking amazing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Dog_Sled_Patrol
>1917 Eddystone
no
Just have a can of kerosene on hand.
I was going to say I would take my chances with my zastava m77. 20 rounds of 308 should take care of the coca cola icon no problem, and from personal experience, ak's handle well in freezing temperatures.
They don't make a .308 that doesn't kill bear.
This is correct. Heavier loads will put a determined carnivore on the groundd faster tan lightre loads, though
Supposedly some countries use 30-06 for keeping polar bear numbers in check.
Yeah I think it's either the Swedes or the Greenlanders/Icelanders who still issue a few dozen 1903 Springfields with receiver cuts to allow easier feeding with heavy 220gr 30-06 rounds specifically for stopping Polar bears in their Arctic outposts. I've also read that 30-06 armor piercing rounds are well-known Polar bear stoppers
danes use the m1917 for their sled patrol of greenland
>Danes
Yeah I knew it was one of the ultra white countries, I just couldn't recall which one, so thanks. I think FW had a video on one of them at some point but I may be misremembering
The Danish Sirius Patrol, who walk around Greenland for 2-year long deployments, are one of the extremely few military units who are issued commercial soft-point hunting ammunition for their service rifles.
That shit is a war crime to fire against enemy soldiers, so it's exclusively to be used against hostile wildlife, particularly polar bears.
>The Danish Sirius Patrol,
Nobody tell the 10mm fags about this, we'll never hear the end of it
to late
>30-06 armor piercing rounds
What absolute horse shit.
A record setting kodiak had it's skull smashed open by 22lr.
5.56 will punch through a quarter inch of steel.
The best elephant hunter of all time was dropping them straight down in their tracks with 6mm and 7mm rifles.
Animals are not fucking bulletproof.
In the last 100 years do you know how many people have been mauled by a bear after hitting it with any bullet in the body or head? Any bullet? Even 9mm or 45?
Guess.
Why are you mad bro, relax and go to talk to some friends once and a while. All I'm saying is i read that those Danish dog sled guys like to load AP rounds when they're in polar bear territory. That was not a personal affront or insult to you. This is, however : go fuck yourself you friendless greasy homosexual
I'd think a 308 would suffice but if you really wanna fuck that motherfucker up grab a 45-70 lever gat with some big boy loads.
308 with 11 gram class bullets will fuck any game in the western hemisphere inside of normal hunting distances
I hope a bear eats you in your sleeping bag like a burrito
Nothing. Polar bears are kindhearted creatures that would never hurt a human.
The Coca-Cola lobby is here.
Brown bears attack to kill but they aren't known to eat humans like black bears. That's why the prevailing advice is to play dead if attacked by a brown bear, but to fight like hell against a black bear. For both types, you're supposed to act like big guy if you see them but they're just staring at you.
Polar bear, however, are the true bastards of the bear world. Acting like a threat doesn't work. Playing dead doesn't work. Fighting back is worth a shot but you're still probably going to lose. These fuckers will hunt wolves. Puny humans are nothing to polar bears. The best advice for polar bears is to not let them see you, or to pack a big gun.
Aren't polar bears also one of the only animals on Earth that will actively hunt humans?
Yeah it's just polar bears, crocodiles, leopards, and naggers
Are you kidding? Tons of animals will prey on humans. Dogs will do it if they're raised wrong. Hell, mosquitos technically do it.
>raised wrong
You mean bred wrong
Wolfs packs will hunt humans if their previous experiences with humans tell them that humans act like prey animals. Guys who live in the mountains know that if wolves come on to their property, you should grab a gun with no silencer and drop as many of them as you can before they run off. If you hear the wolves howling in despair at night, you know you've done the job right. You've traumatised them, and they'll leave you alone.
Imagine battling a pack of wolves from the front door of your trappers cabin. I need to sell my fapshack and live this dream
What is this LARP? Outside of frontier Alaska you can't just go on murking a pack of wolves. Also the Grey was just a movie - wolves don't hunt people.
>captcha: TRY4P
The advice is based on a true story from some guy who actually lived off the grid. He had seen the wolves before and they usually left him alone. One day, he saw them approaching his little hut. He didn't have his rifle, so he retreated into the hut and watched them roam around his site, sniffing and pissing on everything. He knew he had presented a submissive impression to them, and it would get worse if he didn't change that. After they left, grabbed his bolt action and tracked them to an ice lake. He yelled at them, and they started sprinting at him, obviously to with predatory intentions. He took a knee and started firing at them. After he dropped the 3rd one, the pack turned around and retreated. He heard them howling for hours afterwards. They didn't come near him again.
Are you talking about the dude who went on Rogan's podcast and talked about eating caribou intestines and deer spinal cords during the winter? How's about some facts instead of just "I once heard this story"
>Are you talking about the dude who went on Rogan's podcast
Yeah. Why are you discounting the story based only on that? If you really need someone to do a scientific study on whether a pack of wolfs can adopt new behaviours then I can't give it to you.
No I believe the guy on Rogan, but your jumbled (either under 18 or ESL) attempt to retell it and then connect it to wolves hunting people that scared them is difficult to follow and comes off as slightly mentally retarded
I guess I'll have to be more eloquent in the future.
Guys who really live in the mountains know that wolves don't want the smoke and that mountain lions are the real threat
Ive met a lot of people from Barrow.
Polar bears are some what rare around where people live.
Of course, keep your guard up. But if you are anywhere near the town or are on a motorized vehicle the bears won't go anywhere near you.
You don't really need to kill them, just stand your ground and make fuck off. Depending on where you are, wolves may be a protected species.
Dude, your risk of getting a polar bear encounter is slim to none in Barrow.
The native Alaskans are legitimately more dangerous than a polar bear, especially if they have had any alcohol.
If its black, fight back. If its brown, lay down. If its white, goodnight
Polar bears also get fucking huge. Standing up straight they'll reach 3-4 meters and while the average male polar bear is only 500kg the largest known specimen weighted an actual metric ton.
Exactly. Hurting humans is immoral and we would never do that. Lugging a gun into the arctic is just extra dead weight.
you shouldn't enter an area with a high likelihood of being attacked by polar bears and your plan being to kill the animals whose territory you're intruding into for the sole purpose of being able to say "you've been to the northernmost point of the US".
you're a homosexual tourist and I hope you get mauled by a bear
>he's not at the top of the food chain
Nor are you.
I am, I'm a white human male with adequate testosterone. I can see why you'd agree that you aren't though. Your ancestors shit themselves when they saw a short faces bear, mine hunted them
do you apply the same logic to "ethnic" neighborhoods
As the (tool assisted)apex predator of this entire goddamn motherfucking planet, I'll go where ever the fuck I please, and if the native fauna gets uppity, it gets put down.
as another tool assisted apex predator I will make a quadruplegic out of you and creampie your chocolate ring you insufferable beta homosexual
polar bears weren't made in god's image
How d’you know, you’ve seen before what God looks like? One thing is clear tho, He likes bears, He put those fuckers everywhere on the planet! I’m not sure He’s gonna be happy with you fucking with His bears.
There are more people than all bears.
And there are more ants and cockroaches...
Bears need to learn FAFO.
Because it says it right there in the bible, liberal
>2 Kings 2:23-24
>And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, "Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head".
>Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
Bears are bearers of God’s wrath.
This is the based take, all others are no better than naggers
It's funny you say that, because if you look at his post again and replace "bears" with "black people", I bet your opinion would be the opposite.
No, I'm well past being a 14 year old, it would be retarded and subhuman either way.
I hope your gun malfunctions at the last moment and you get mauled then eaten from toe limb by limb
I am not pro bears, but bear in mind that Polar Bears have the right to bear arms.
>I am not pro bears, but bear in mind that Polar Bears have the right to bear arms.
k e k
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/heimos-arctic-refuge/
Should be required viewing for you I think. It's a documentary about an older man in the Alaskan wilderness who lives there with his wife. He kills a polar bear in it. The polar bear almost gets his dog and he kills and cleans it in his huge meat drying area.
Anon, polar bears are a vulnerable species. Don't kill one just because you want to tick a box on some retarded bucket list.
I don't *want* to kill a polar bear, I *want* to live if the local fauna decides that I look like I make for good tasting leftovers
>be smelly neckbeard in wilderness filled with nothing except hungry bears
Dude, you have a gun. Just put it in your mouth and pull the trigger to rid the world if your stupidty.
Sure sounds like you want to kill a big scary bear to feel like your life is less pathetic
Bring some bear spray as well.
If the bear is just curious/isn't actively charging you then something like that can make it turn around. Obviously kill it if you have to but generally polar bears react to a cloud of bear spray the same way grizzly cubs react to a skunk.
Polar bears are increasingly rare and deserve to be protected. They're a part of our nation's natural heritage.
>t. Lived in the North Slope until a couple of years ago and have dealt with my share of polar bears.
What's the range on bear spray? The only way I see this being effective is if it was mounted to the gun like a bayonet
That’s white privilege right there!
>Polar bears are increasingly rare and deserve to be protected. They're a part of our nation's natural heritage.
Yeah, so don't fucking shoot them. Don't go into areas frequented by polar bears unless you need to. The degree to which they deserve to be protected absolutely extends past some retard's desire to put his grubby little shitkickers on a patch of barren soil that happens to be pretty far north. Don't put threatened species in danger basically for shits and giggles.
There are several billion humans. There are very few polar bears left. The human species will survive if some retard doesn't get to do exactly what he wants regardless of the consequences. If enough retards decide to do it anyway, it is very realistic that polar bears will completely die out forever.
You're not that important, OP. It doesn't matter to anyone but you that you were able to knock some inconsequential item off a bucket list. Nobody will remember you lived in a hundred years. Don't put polar bears at risk for that.
Polar bears aren't that important either they're fucking bears that live on ice. If they go extinct because they can't adapt to a world ruled by more versatile animals (humans) then that's natural selection. Shove your elementary school sense of morals and shove it up your ass
The world's ecosystems are incredibly complex, highly interlinked, and deceptively fragile. Fucking with them arbitrarily for completely selfish reasons (hurr me want go most north possible) is completely immoral. If my morals are "elementary school" then yours are preschool. "Might makes right" is the most basal, naggerbrained theory of morality possible. Even elementary school students know that it's not necessarily right to do what you can do regardless of consequences.
>whataboutism
>you greenie
Yeah, it sucks that China is polluting a lot. If you were a Chinese conglomerate, I'd probably be calling you a retard for your myopia in that regard as well. Are you a Chinese coal plant? Or can we get back to talking about why it's shitty to endanger animals pointlessly?
Fuck this thinking. I'm not allowed to walk this earth because of some retard and some animal? Why even be born? If you think this way, don't have kids. This is 4chins though...
Yeah
>fuck everyone and everything else on this planet as long as I get mine
Some real fucking boomer think coming through here.
Nobody gets theirs when there it's there to be had is your way to go about it. Maybe OP gets to see a polar bear irl while you finger your asshole on the toilet.
Too damn afraid of destroying the world you don't get to experience it.
>”Too damn afraid”
>”experience it”
If he was really a man he’d choose to do something more impressive than just drive up there and hike the last few miles to the northern most part of his country with the biggest gun.
I’d be more impressed if he planned to hike to the southern most part of the continent with just a knife. That would be a more impressive journey.
Yeah yeeting a bear from 500 yards away ain't shit. Kill a bear with a spear if you want me to give a fuck.
NTA but you should look up Tim Wells Bowhunter on youtube. He hunts big dangerous game with spears and blowguns. The blackbear blowgun video is fucking wild. Pretty sure he spears a brown bear in another vid. Dude is definitely a little off but I defy anybody to say he isn't a real man
>I'm not allowed to walk this earth because of some retard and some animal
What on earth has given you the delusion that you can walk wherever you want?
Is the northern most part of the U.S. some restricted zone? Can he not go there? Will this be added to some green list of places nobody can go because nobody gets to look at bears anymore?
>is the northern most part of the U.S. some restricted zone
No, there’s a whole human settlement there with a road leading to it, it’s not like OP is gonna be hiking out into the arctic wilderness to exterminate polar bears so I don’t know what all the bitching is about. And bottom line is that he is an American citizen who is well within his right to travel where he pleases in the United States.
He can't travel anywhere he likes in the US. Private land, military bases, government offices, etc.
Is he planning on trespassing or trying to get on a military base? No? Okay then fuck off with your false equivalencies. Stay in your room and eat tendies homosexual you’re not stopping the rest of us from living our lives.
The point isn't any specific activity, it's how his whole idea of "I go wherever I want and do whatever I please" being retarded.
That's not the idea at all you fuckin retard. Read the OP or fuck off. It's so easy you idiot motherfucker.
OP should go there and take a selfie out of pure spite. You can take a selfie too, of yourself in your bed jacking off your thin little dick.
>As the (tool assisted)apex predator of this entire goddamn motherfucking planet, I'll go where ever the fuck I please, and if the native fauna gets uppity, it gets put down.
>Fuck this thinking. I'm not allowed to walk this earth because of some retard and some animal? Why even be born?
"... and other inane thoughts from a nagger who's never read a book in his life"
Coal plants in China do orders of magnitude more harm to polar bears than a few random hikers you tard, it's not like OP is going out with the intent of hunting one down. The worst thing about greenies is how misdirected most of their anger is.
This is such a retarded argument. The US has much higher CO2 emissions per capita, why bring Chinese emissions? It's just shifting the blame. And it doesn't even matter because it's besides the point.
The point is that if every dumb retarded decided to go hike strapped to Polar bear territory which is dwindling by the year, they'll go extinct very quickly.
How many bears do hikers kill per year in self defense when compared to climate related habitat loss? I'm willing to bet it isn't many. There's a 99% chance OP goes on his hike and never encounters a polar bear, much less needs to shoot one, and you fags are pearl clutching already.
People who explore nature more often than not also advocate for it. Hikers, campers, hunters, and explorers are the largest conservationist group in this country.
>per capita
When China has almost 3 times the population, that per capita becomes quite deceptive, Chinkoid.
Per capita makes no difference in a closed system like the planet earth. Gross pollution is all that matters.
You think the planet would notice if Andorra had the highest per capita pollution rates? Fuck no.
Who the fuck are these people? Leave the board you god damn homosexuals
Imagine being such a homosexual that you have to go someplace unnecessary and kill everything along the way. Not for survival, not to live, not to protect your livelihood or your loved ones, you just want to go somewhere to post on your social media and say "look what I did". Congrats, homosexual, no one cares.
It is the exact same retard mindset of going to the hood, shouting nagger at everyone you see, and shooting the people who try and kick your ass.
If you naggers really feel the need to kill something I recommend sticking a barrel in your mouth and pulling the trigger, at least then the world loses nothing of consequence.
Mad as fuck
Sports shooting is based and so is pissing off homosexual redditors like you
Go make a thread on PrepHole or PrepHole and cry about it pussy lol
>It is the exact same retard mindset of going to the hood, shouting nagger at everyone you see, and shooting the people who try and kick your ass.
That would be the single most based action in all of human history.
We'd sing songs about it for five hundred years.
>kill everything along the way
OP asked what weapon he should get to defend himself. He's going on a hike, not a hunting trip
Dude, go back. You honestly don't belong here. Op wants to get off the couch and do something. Something I personally understand and respect. He never said he was gonna go out of his way to kill a bear. It's the equivalent of being strapped minding your own business in the hood as a white man. Nigs will find out.
>Everyone without my same retard opinion about killing anything that moves for no reason is a redditor
have a nice day
Op is obviously looking for a self-defense gun for a potentially dangerous hike. Let me reiterate that no one but you fags have suggested op going out of his way to kill a bear. I think you've inspired me, though. I might take the same hike and hope a bear fucks around because fuck you cunt.
OP is going out.of his way to hike in a dangerous area for a retarded reason. Dangerous to the point where being attacked is a very real possibility and not just the "I carry when I hike for mountain lions" meme that most normies carry for.
OP is a homosexual and should hike somewhere else.
Outdoorsmen are the largest group of land and wildlife conservationist by far so spare us the sanctimonious bullshit. You want to save the polar bears? Take it up with the massive industries that are fucking up the ice caps, don’t be some finger wagging karen.
>Take it up with the massive industries that are fucking up the ice caps
not my problem
>not my problem
Than neither is some literally who on a travel trip so shut the fuck up
I'm not the OP but I'm a native Alaskan and I've killed 6 polar bears since I moved here 14 years ago. It's honestly a thrill and the feeling is indescribable. I'd kill more but I'm worried about getting caught somehow so I usually only kill one every few years.
>I’m totally not a board tourist guys
Post guns
Post hands, nagger
On the john at the job
>literal shitposting
>Dude, go back. You honestly don't belong here
"Dude," I've been on PrepHole since 2006.
Do you have any outdoor experience?
Gonna be funny when we hear about some neet falling through the ice and turning into a lardsicle
Oiled up Ruger Redhawk in 44 magnum and then a really oiled up.308 bolt action with some Hispanicy rounds. Make sure to use oils that can handle -40F or below. A big truck with strong doors and thick glass is also a good way to deter them. I believe if you shoot one you have to report it and its worse than shooting a dindu in a blue DA county.
Rockets
Headshots are for hillbillies and retards. OP if a bear comes right for you shoot it with a nine-millimeter and blow it's lungs out.
You gotta have a portable electric fence. Polar bears can smell your ass miles away and will sneak up on you. Your other option is to stay on a boat.
Can’t I just clean my ass with purell or shove an air freshener up my ass?
Little trees are barbed bro. Good luck ripping one out of you asshole, even if you poo for lube.
I dont condone fucking with wildlife unless it is fucking with you. Or if you are hunting for legit animals to eat. If you want to explore Alaska, explore Alaska but leave the wilderness wild, there isnt enough of it left in the world. That being said Im sure anything larger than a 5.56 will do the trick. I mean Im sure you could kill one with a 9mm if you hit it in the right spots or enough times but the less likely they die in 1-2 rounds the more dangerous your situation will likely become.
Aim for the lungs, it will blow them right out.
M1917 Enfield. Still used by dudes patrolling Greenland today.
A knife
AK in 7.62x39 using basic FMJ ammo is all you need.
>AK will run well in the cold
>7.62x39 overpenetrates humans but will penetrate nicely in a polar bear
>lighter than the FAL OP was considering.
Ukro shills posting here really shows how not /k/ they are.
Toal polar bear death; may the grizzlies inherit the earth
any gun bigger than .22 long is going to get a bear to fuck off.
it's not thick bush, your gonna see it coming and 30 rounds of 5.56 will convince any animal to fuck off and die
Daily reminder that we got a lot of tourists from reddit and discord. They are not here to talk about weapons, they are here to change your opinion about political bullshit no one cares about.
I had to put one down when it charged me. Bolt action 375H&H magnum. It was facing me and the first shot hit square in the chest, it barely flinched. Second shot brought it down and I put a third one in its brainpan just in case. Most terrifying experience of my life. Fucker killed my dogs and was advancing on me aggressively.
Tough fuckers - that first shot caught it square in the chest and traveled through coming out its gut just before the family israeliteels. Secpmd landed a bit higher, and he halted, wheezed and dropped. Much easier to put an animal down from a side angle than head on, if you know where to shoot.
If I had done it over I'd have taken out my Garand. But I'm alive and one of my dogs survived, lived a good life, passing at about 15. She was a tough girl.
>It was facing me and the first shot hit square in the chest, it barely flinched
Translation: I was drunk and panicking and I missed.
thats nuts
Yeah like actually unbelievable.
Lying homosexual
FAL is fine, if a bear fucks with you you're gonna be all adrenalined up and magdumping you need capacity. You're not one of those icy operators that use Enfields or lever guns.
tfw: you find the coolest dude for at least in the last 500sq miles and he tells you to fuck off they're full
.458wm with the heaviest bullets you can get
.375 H&H isn't enough according to anon, so maybe its big brother could make up the difference and get it down in 1.
what about 9.3x62?
>.375 H&H isn't enough according to anon
Minimum for brown bear, mileage may vary with a polar.
>minimum tor brown bear
Lol. Canadians kill brown bears with .303. Americans kill brown bears with .308. Swedes and Finns kill brown bears with 6.5. Read a fucking book
IIRC 6.5x55 is the round with the most elephants to its name.
Yeah it's wither that or 7x57. Based either way
>Point Barrow,
It's called Utqiagvik reddit.
AR or FAL is fine you won't have time to aim when you're on the dinner menu
Natives have been using .303 British to take out Polar bears for over a century
real question, would it be possible to fuck a polar bear (in self defense)?
good on OP for asking the question in /cangen/ instead of the retards here who have never encountered polar bears. Got some real advice.
some lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, and large crocodilians are the only animals that will actively hunt humans for food. In no-naggers areas of North America, only Polar bears are of concern.
Pack a 12 gau with rifled slugs retard. The heavier the load, the better. I expect a greentext when you return homosexual.
45-70
Absolutely fascinating to come back into this thread and see like 100+ completely unproductive posts and like 5 actually useful ones to my question. I'm going with /cangen/'s advice and packing my 590 with the hottest slugs I can find. Again, I don't want to fucking shoot a polar bear, I know they're protected and also don't want to be killing wildlife at random in general. I *also* don't want to have the very slim chance of getting mauled; even if I go in July (the best time to go according to the literature online) I do still run the risk of a polar bear being out in that weather, and I'd prefer to hedge my bets if at all possible. Hell, I probably can't even guarantee that the tours offered won't be 100% safe from polar bears.
Calm your tits y'all, I might not even go if my career/time doesn't let me.
OP this is a bad idea and you'll probably end up getting raped in the bethel airport for the shooter of r&r in your overnight bag
Come join my sasquatch cardio program instead
July? The height of mosquito season?
Imagine if you lowered that scope and suddenly the bear was right in front of you.
I pissed in his direction and then went to bed
He moved across the valley to avoid us
Tons of berries everywhere
Pic related, he stayed on that hill to the right for like 3 days
Just bring a sub compact 22lr pistol, bring your family along too so you can stay warm together, don't forget to pack some snacks with high cal like some smoked beef jerky. And don't forget to have fun.
Honestly just take a rifle or a 12 gauge and you’ll be fine is my guess, I’d read into how the ballistics of .223/556 performs against bears, I’d assume it’d be fine, but intermediate cartridges might be light
>good luck friend, go hunt yourself a polar bear and mail me a claw
.45-70 govt would be best all rounder. Obviously the advice would generally be to stay away from Polars. Few other options that may kill, will definitely wound are center full caliber necked cartridges like .30-06, 8mm Mauser, 7.62x54r, or larger like .300 win mag. Could also carry a 12 gauge pump action shotgun with slugs.
"Now sonny you don't need those fancy military assault weapons, what you NEED is a 22lr becuz the 22 is the strongest round becuz it bounces around inside the skull"