To the OP, I've never hunted bear (just getting that cleared right off). Teddy Roosevelt took a charging rhino with a .357 magnum, dropping it within feet of himself.
Ingwe swears by the .223 AI for everything under cape buffalo.
I am neither the caliber hunter of TR nor Ingwe. Most of us aren't. Use enough gun!
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