I don't know about taking walrus with a .357, but typically when people talk about big game here in Alaska, they're talking brown bear, moose or caribou. Using a .357 for a final killing shot on an animal which was wounded and downed by a rifle shot is fine, but if anyone tried to hunt the big stuff up here solely with a .357, he'd be ridiculed far and wide.
While I personally know people who have taken multiple big brown bear with .44 mags, they're still very much the exception. Now, on Sitka blacktail deer, a .357 might be okay.
Also, native Alaskans have been hunting walrus for a *lot* longer than S&W has been making handguns, so I wouldn't put much stock in the legitimacy of the catholic priest story
Mike
Last edited by AlaskaMike; February 9, 2006 at 06:48 PM.
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