This is a picture taken just outside my tent while moose hunting up near fairbanks. These interior bears are generally not as large as the coastal bears I normally see while black bear hunting but can still be impressive, especially when you know it was prowling around your text the night before. For the record my size 15 mud boots leave a very large footprint.
I agree shooting a bear outside of a couple hundred yards is a very bad idea. Generally your up high when you can see that far and the prospect of tracking a bear on steep ground is terrifying.
My buddy punched one a tad far back a few years ago and tracking it thru the thick brush was easily one of the scariest situation I have ever been in. Thick alders where you could see the talker ones moving but still not the bear less than 20 yards away. We backed out and even after going in the next day never recovered the bear.
I passed up a very nice interior frizz because it didn't give me the angle I wanted at just over 200 yards. I didn't have faith in my 180gr partition out of my 300 win punching thru the near shoulder and had no desire to go into the thick hillside below the bear where I'm sure he would have wound up. No knock on the partition I've just seen them stopped in bony spine and shoulder joints too many times in moose, with proper placement they work with the surety of taxes, and that bear didn't give me the shot I liked. It was a gorgeous blond bear with chocolate legs. It would have made an excellent rug.
The 30 cal 180gr bullet minimum is a good rule of thumb on the bigger bears and as long as you can handle it there is no maximum. When being charged my 375 RUM felt "puny". That's one of the reasons I'm having a 458 lott put together.
A lot of times while bear hunting I take more of a backup position as I try to get my kids or other less experienced hunters a crack at blackies over bait. I generally still get the meat and one can only have so many rugs. I would like to put a good brown bear on my wall one of these days, but time off is a premium and filling the freezer with moose generally takes priority.
Hopefully I'll get a crack at a good one this spring! Last year the kenai Fire ruined my spring season.
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Statistics: Posted by Thebear_78 — Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:05 am