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What is the smallest caliber to legally hunt black bear with?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1594788" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>Well you and me both. I guess that the responses were to the question the OP presented. Sometimes some of the threads take on a whole new life of their own. In my opinion you are not old, you just possess common sense; and, sometimes common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden!! I'm into the larger diameter bullets for black bear hunting, thus the 35 Whelen, .358 Winchester and the 45-70. Most any rifle cartridge can kill a bear, just some are not as practical as others. Whether it's a black bear or a grizzly bear neither one are fun to track when they are wounded. My last experience with a guide looking or a wounded black bear turned into a situation where the guide was almost torn up. That bear was gut shot with an arrow, the hunter swore that it was a good hit, not....so! The only reason the bear died was because the arrow struck a major artery in the hind leg. To me a question of, <em>"What caliber would you recommend for hunting black bears?"</em> would be a better one. On this forum you will find the this question gets asked quite often for just about all game that is hunted. I like to hunt with a caliber that I know will get the job done with no questions asked. I like the .270 Winchester, however for black bear hunting I prefer a larger caliber (diameter) bullet for an exit hole for a blood trail. I like the .270, I just believe that there are better calibers to hunt bear with. All of the outfitters that I have hunted with all preach the same thing, large exit holes in case the bear has to be tracked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1594788, member: 69192"] Well you and me both. I guess that the responses were to the question the OP presented. Sometimes some of the threads take on a whole new life of their own. In my opinion you are not old, you just possess common sense; and, sometimes common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden!! I'm into the larger diameter bullets for black bear hunting, thus the 35 Whelen, .358 Winchester and the 45-70. Most any rifle cartridge can kill a bear, just some are not as practical as others. Whether it's a black bear or a grizzly bear neither one are fun to track when they are wounded. My last experience with a guide looking or a wounded black bear turned into a situation where the guide was almost torn up. That bear was gut shot with an arrow, the hunter swore that it was a good hit, not....so! The only reason the bear died was because the arrow struck a major artery in the hind leg. To me a question of, [I]"What caliber would you recommend for hunting black bears?"[/I] would be a better one. On this forum you will find the this question gets asked quite often for just about all game that is hunted. I like to hunt with a caliber that I know will get the job done with no questions asked. I like the .270 Winchester, however for black bear hunting I prefer a larger caliber (diameter) bullet for an exit hole for a blood trail. I like the .270, I just believe that there are better calibers to hunt bear with. All of the outfitters that I have hunted with all preach the same thing, large exit holes in case the bear has to be tracked. [/QUOTE]
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