You can do your hunt solo, no problemo.
Ive been looking for Browns and Blacks a our Arctic Spring aproches, but sinces its barly above Zero, it may be a week or two, before I get what I want, a nice FAT Bear to eat.
I hunt them alone often, and since Im the one with the gun, Im hunting them.
If the Bear charges you, the rifle your carrying is 9 outta 10 times the "one" your gonna defend yourself with, so a "back up" is not nessearry. Good to have handy in camp, for when your gathering wood, fishing, cooking, ect, but just dead weight when you have a much more powerfull rifle IN your hands....~~LOL!!!~~The rifle; he only "True" Bear Stopper.
As an Alaskan hat has eaten many many Bears, I offer you this;
take a gun you can hit with. The biggest "bear Gun" doesnt mean squat if you dont place the bullet right.
For Blacks .243W with 100 Grns will shoot right through them, for Brown, a .308W 180 gr. and up is my reccomendation, and I personally use a Finn SAKO Mosin Nagant M-39 with Czeck LPS FMJ steel core 7.62X54R on both, with NO problems. The round is a Bone breaker and hell of a tumbler.
Get confident in your shooting skill, and just go for it!~
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