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Black bear body parts are coveted by some Asian cultures and are traded on an animal parts black market. I believe black bear Gall bladders are used in eastern medicine for something and are actually quite valuable. It is illegal to import bear body parts for these uses.

over 90% of the 44 shootings listed happened since 1990.

#1 would be.30-378 weatherby or #2 .300 remington ultramag. But with the weatherby .30-378 factory loads you are talking $100 plus for 20 factory rounds. .300 rum you are looking at $50 to $70 for 20 rounds. I have a .300 weatherby, and I have hunted elk and mulies with that round for 15 years...

Mueller scopes are great on rimfires. I have an Eradicator 8.5-25 50mm on my 17hmr savage 93 and it has worked great. What cal. is your 452? The Muller APV scope also has very good reviews on rimfirecentral.com. muelleroptics.com

European mount. That is a very nice buck. But the one you shot next year or in four years if you have to draw could be bigger. In colorado anything above 20 inches is respectable but there are bigger deer out there. During your life how many shoulder mounted deer do you want? I would hold out...

180 grain Barnes triple shock. Ruger No. 1 in 300 Weatherby. Elk and muledeer are the same season.

I went to the last one aswell. It was pretty small. I paid $6 and spent an hour there. They had only about 15 vendors total. Sure did not have to worry about crowds or that having to move along feeling. The people were nice. Gun wise I enjoyed my last trip to Jensen Arms more. I still felt like...

This is the minimum from the Colorado Division of Wildlife 1. Rifles using center fire cartridges of .24 caliber or larger, having expanding bullets of at least seventy (70) grains in weight, except for elk and moose where the minimum bullet weight is eighty-five (85) grains, and with a...

Me and my older brother started hunting elk at age 12 with my dads .243 ruger m77. We shot fedral premium with 100 grn Noslers. At 16 we went to 30.06 and now I hunt with magnums. My brother killed a cow at 200 yds and my cousin killed a bull at 300+ yards with 1 shot both with .243. I think...