Garandimal
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Not reasonably, no. Windage is too big. My point was simply about what you use if you want to stop a bear.
If you're looking for a bear protection/long range crossover round, I would look hard at any of the big .375s and use the 260gr Accubond for reach and the 300gr Weldcore for stopping. Alternately you could use something like the .325WSM with 220gr Weldcores for both applications. The .30-06 would be way down my list but barely viable. The .270 would not make the list.
The knock on the WSMs for this application is the rebate rim and potential for finicky feeding. If you have a CRF gun you know works well, neither would be a deal breaker IMO.it might actually be as close to "ideal" as possible, working within the confines of the original supposition.
Or possibly a .338, but the only ones I've shot we're a very light Lapua, and an ultra, neither of which I ever wanna do again.
Standards definitely have gone up over time, but if it's my hide in front of the bear I have NO problem using the most effective rifle I can get. Whelen would be amazed at the difference between his .50-100-450 (450gr at 1450ft/s) vs the same chambering in my modern 1886/71 (500gr+ at 2000 ft/s+). Of course with a shotgun butt, recoil pad and mercury cylinder mine is probably a lot more fun to shoot than his was.