Your favorite caliber for black bear?

[uncle buck]

One of these days I am going to get out there and hunt black bear...What caliber do you like to use or what calbier do you think would be good for Black Bear? 

[scott]

Chuck Adams always said the black bear was the easiest of any game animal to kill with a well placed arrow.  I shot one twice with a 270 wsm 150 grain bullet and man they are one tough animal.  think if i ever hunted them again it would be the 45-70. 

[foxpro51]

300 win mag, 300 wsm, 300 wby mag. 375 h&h for big bears. I have taken 3 black bears and one brown bear with these calibers. All one shot kills.

[uncle buck]

Ya you would want a big slug so the fat does not plug the bullet hole...Should you need to follow a blood trail.  Ya I have a 4570 Encore Barrel..That what I would use or 3006 with at least 180 grain bullets.

[Buckwheat]

3006 180 grain core lock. Three pa bear. I have killed them with 150 grain core lock.

[bdawg]

7mm ultra mag with 160grain nosler partitions

[Buckwheat]

Foxpro51 said

300 win mag, 300 wsm, 300 wby mag. 375 h&h for big bears

He is correct for big bears. You may have to punch a bullet through a foot thick shoulder and the bullet would still need to do a lot of damage in the chest cavity.

[uncle buck]

I did purchase a black bear hunting license this year.  The state wide bear season will open on a Saturday and then close and run into Monday and Tuesday...This will make it good for workers to get out in the woods on a Saturday.



Gone are the additional days to hunt them in certain WMU's during deer season.. I suppose they really whacked them last year so PGC felt they better stop doing this..  I did like this since you could hunt buck, doe, and bear all at the same time..