Wabackwoods
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Moving to Washington State on Monday. Going to be smack dab in an area filled with State Parks. Beautiful. But it's bear country.
I fully understand about garbage disposal, food storage and other preventive measures and I am also buying Bear Spray, but I have concerns about if a bear escalates or continues an attack.
The area we will be moving to is semi remote and the person we bought the home from has stated that they have had several issues with bears in the past.
Once to the point that they had to shoot one that broke into the house.
I've read up that the primary bear there is the Black Bear. I've had run in's with them in Missouri once but thankfully they backed off.
The owner claimed (and I am doubtful from what I've read from the State) that they had even seen grizzly bears there.
What I need to know is, that in a worse situation, will my Mosin Nagat do the trick in bringing down a bear if it attacks and there is no recourse but to shoot it?
I know for sure that soft point bullets are a must but was concerned that maybe the rifle was not enough. I am a Texas guy that has mainly used this rifle for cottontail hunting and the Pacific NW as well as dealing with bears is a remote experience for me until now.
Open to thoughts about this.
I fully understand about garbage disposal, food storage and other preventive measures and I am also buying Bear Spray, but I have concerns about if a bear escalates or continues an attack.
The area we will be moving to is semi remote and the person we bought the home from has stated that they have had several issues with bears in the past.
Once to the point that they had to shoot one that broke into the house.
I've read up that the primary bear there is the Black Bear. I've had run in's with them in Missouri once but thankfully they backed off.
The owner claimed (and I am doubtful from what I've read from the State) that they had even seen grizzly bears there.
What I need to know is, that in a worse situation, will my Mosin Nagat do the trick in bringing down a bear if it attacks and there is no recourse but to shoot it?
I know for sure that soft point bullets are a must but was concerned that maybe the rifle was not enough. I am a Texas guy that has mainly used this rifle for cottontail hunting and the Pacific NW as well as dealing with bears is a remote experience for me until now.
Open to thoughts about this.