Bear Hunters

[biliff]

I'm curious what calibers you black bear hunters use.
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.54 or .58

 

[Kapow]

One I got in Saskatchewan with my bow in '02

 

[jsmccarver]

My friend and I went to CO this year to hunt bears. We both got one. He was using a 50 cal Hawken and I was using a 54 cal Renegade. Both were taken with a single shot. I would say shot placement is key regardless of caliber.

 

[peter hawbaker]

We get a bear pretty much every year here in interior Alaska. Here is a video of this springs bear, shot it with my .60 Virginia rifle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS9NI5WWN8Q

 

[Sean Gadhar]

My friend and I went to CO this year to hunt bears. We both got one. He was using a 50 cal Hawken and I was using a 54 cal Renegade. Both were taken with a single shot. I would say shot placement is key regardless of caliber.

Wow :shocked2: In Colorado? Were you calling them or spot & stock?

We have a ton of bears here, but since they outlawed bait & hounds success rates run about 5%-10% and you all both got one!.....Do tell How did you go about it?

I have about given up even buying the tag :idunno:

 

[Patocazador]

I know you said rifle not smooth bore. Please show and tell us about your gun, loads, ball size, etc.

A final photo of that bear would be nice too.

Thanks.

 

[peter hawbaker]

It is a Chambers Mark Silver Virginia rifle with a rifled .60 caliber Getz barrel. Load is a .595 PRB in front of 120 grains 3F Goex.

 

[Patocazador]

It's a beauty. Thanks.

 

[renegadehunter]

I shot one years ago, opportunity encounter while elk hunting.
Been running a spring bait site the last couple of seasons, shot one off of it this spring...cheated though, shot it with a 7mm/08. I only recently "discovered" BP hunting, but have the bug pretty hard now.

 

[John Neslen]

Note: Please no more PM's for bear hunting, the next two years are taken.

 

[azmntman]

Cool video! Nice bear!

 

[texcl]

We've shot 3 mn, I shot a nice 12 year old cinnamon bear my first time out with my flintlock .58 and a round ball over 85 grains of powder. It died within 2 seconds. I don't think black bears are particularly tough.

 

[texcl]

Here's a pic of my cinnamon bear it had a blonde razer back and a white star to boot. I'm the guy on the left. The hides had been rolled up in a fridge and had shrunk quite a bit,lol.

 

[Ron LaClair]

I've killed 5 with traditional bows and one with a .62cal flintlock rifle.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I got my 1st this year (.64 cal. ESR flintlock )

 

[Old Creek]

first congratulations to Sean and you other guys on your success.
we had our first bear hunt here this season in 20 some odd years. i have never had any interest in hunting bears but i appreciate the folks who do, we are eat up with them now from the many years they were protected and many are habituated to the point i am surprised we don't have more problems than we do. when i first moved on my property i was all excited to be close to my hunting grounds and i had a food plot in the back so i could rush home from work and sit til dark. well a sow moved in and was bedded with two cubs probably within 50 yards of the food. i didn't think much about it until i went out one afternoon to get something out of a shed and i heard her busting palmettos, i wasn't worried about her so much but i was worried about what might have happened if one of her cubs had been exploring around the shed. i figured that i moved into her yard so i let her be and quit feeding deer so i didn't have a problem but she sure gave two of my neighbors a fit, tore one of their screened in back porch to pieces to get at his fish cooker, grease everywhere and it had to be completely re-screened.

that's my long winded explanation and way of saying, i don't hunt bears but God bless all of you who do !!!

creek

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats to all you succsefull hunters :hatsoff: Griz