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As a former guide myself and as a hunter who’s met professional guides and hunters in 9 states and 5 countries, I can tell you that I have never known one that used a 300 mag.
Maybe the TV is showing some, but I don’t own a TV so I can’t say.
That's not to say anything bad against a 300, but every pro I ever knew ----if they carried a rifle at all ---carried a heavy hitter or their own hunting rifle. The “heavies” I have seen were 12 gauges with slugs, 458s, 375H&Hs, 416s and 404s.
The guides that carry their own rifles which they hunt with when not guiding carried mostly 30-06s and 270s one carried a 7mm Rem mag, and one carried a 338-06 which I made for him.
Also one man I know in Alaska carries an M-1 Garand with his own hand loads, (180 grain Barnes X bullets) but tells me he’s never had to use it.
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