Favorite way to carry extra rounds Bear Hunting

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Looking for the most efficient way to carry extra 375 H&H rounds when bear hunting in AK. Must be readily available and quickly accessible. Sleeves over the sock or rounds carried on sling always end up missing. Leather wallet on belt doesn’t seem like a great idea because of the nearly constant rain and moisture.
 
How many do you have in your rifle?
How many is your guide carrying?
I know of an ol' boy around these parts who shoots only an 375 H&H T/C single shot with a wrist sleeve of reloads and he does quite well on multiple animals. He once got 6 pigs out of one sounder and another time got 3 does out of one herd. Using a single shot T/C. It can be done.
 
How many do you have in your rifle?
How many is your guide carrying?
I know of an ol' boy around these parts who shoots only an 375 H&H T/C single shot with a wrist sleeve of reloads and he does quite well on multiple animals. He once got 6 pigs out of one sounder and another time got 3 does out of one herd. Using a single shot T/C. It can be done.
4 in my rifle. No idea how many my guide will carry.
This is a peninsula brown bear hunt. Extra rounds are a must and they absolutely need to be readily available.
 
If you don’t want to use a stock pack but you have a spot on your pack belt or on your bino case open, the Gohunt Ammo Wallet has worked well for me.

For the fastest possible reloading, I think one of the two cartridge carriers that mount near the ejection port would be on my list.
 
If you don’t want to use a stock pack but you have a spot on your pack belt or on your bino case open, the Gohunt Ammo Wallet has worked well for me.

For the fastest possible reloading, I think one of the two cartridge carriers that mount near the ejection port would be on my list.
Have you stored 375’s in it?
 
Kuiu used to make an ammo holder flip pouch. I have it mounted on the right side of my bino harness. It’s the best I have found that keeps the ammo out of the elements and is super accessible. I don’t think they make it any more though.

.....and I stored my 375 H&H rounds in it on my bear hunt, so it will accommodate virtually any bullet size.
 
Alaska Guide Creations also makes a “Bullet Patch” that mounts inside the front zipper on their bino harness that more or less does the same as the Kuiu just in a different location. Might be an option if you run an AGC harness. I would look at other bino harness manufacturers as they may also have a solution for extra ammo.
 
An elastic stock sleeve would rarely if ever spit out a cartridge. I find it funny hunting photos rarely show these yet many are carried in the field in AK. More than one hunter has slipped his off for photos. I don’t fill it all the way up, but keep 3 or 6 there. The cartridge carriers for the butt stock that have extra storage in addition to cartridge loops just seem to add too much bulk for a rifle that’s going to get shouldered quickly, probably with rain gear. There’s a permanent lipoma bump right above my bicep where the 375 didn’t get shouldered exactly right while practicing snap shots in good rainy conditions.

I’ve also taped three cartridges together with a single wrap of electrical tape with an inch long tail, for quiet carry in front pockets, and a few more in the pack. Without having to think I automatically know three are as easy to get as car keys, but it would seem fumbly if someone doesn’t use taped cartridges the rest of the year, and rain gear makes reaching front pockets a little work. Between six in front pockets, six in the pack and what’s in the stock carrier, that’s a full box of ammo.

I like the idea of a cartridge holder on the belt, but have never used one since it interferes with a pack belt, although placed on the pack belt can work if you have room. I don’t want anything on my wrists so I’d pass on wrist carriers, but they might work great.

One of the holders that keeps a couple on the stock near the receiver could work as long as it’s not right where the carry hand wraps around the stock. Some like one of the slings that hold a couple, but that extra weight swinging under the rifle never excited me.

Rain gear and your day pack belt will complicate most options. With the butt stock always in the right place and easily accessible it’s a natural.
 
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Have you stored 375’s in it?
I haven’t tried the two cartridge carrier with anything, but I would if the goal was to get the fastest reloads.

I have carried 30 Nosler and 300 RUM in the Gohunt carrier and it worked fine so I don’t think there would be any issue with 375 H&H.
 
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