The 22-250 for bear??

In Oregon, where both Hunter33 and I (and it looks like a lot of other posters) live, it is perfectly legal.
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Yes, it is legal, but not very wise if you want to anchor the bear. Black bears I have seen average about 250 lbs, but I have also seen one that went 680 lbs IIRC. They are not terrifically hard to kill with a well-placed shot to the head. But that generally only works for baited and treed bears. As davlandrum said, it's no longer leagal to do either. I would recommend something a little bigger.
 
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If I were hunting black bear I would carry nothing less than a 375 Holand and Holand magnum.
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The bears must be as big as tanks around you:D.

IMHO the .22-250 has no place in the bear world. Even if you are an experienced hunter, always use enough gun and go for the clean kill. The centerfires of the 6mm class and up should be jst fine for black bear.
 
While I've only hunted black bear once I would never use a .22-250 legal or not for bear. Sure you can kill them with it but if you make a less than perfect shot do you want to be tracking a wounded animal it. While black bears are not very scary (at least not to me) they do move very fast and have big claws and teeth. The idea of tracking a wounded animal that can move fast and put a hurtin on you with those claws and teeth is very scary to me to say the least. I think when hunting any bear you want to put them down hard and fast so the heavier the bullet the better.

hunter33 you have that .30-40 Krag, find some 220 grain round nose cartridges and go shoot a bear with that. I'm sure you will have better results with that than you will any .22-250. If you decide to hunt a bear let us know how it turns out.

BTW this is what I mean about claws!
 

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I love shooting 22-250 and as impressed as I am with it and having seen what it can do I still don't think I would attempt to use it on anything that big. I'd want something with relatively painfull recoil before I could trust hunting something that big and possibly that mean.
 
I agree, the 22-250 will take deer but I've only done it once and probably won't again. This fall I took a good sized whitetail(138lbs dressed) with my 22-250 at 350 yds. I've shot this rifle more than any other I own and I know the drop out to that distance.
The 55gr vmax entered behind the right shoulder, destroyed the left lung and took a rib on the way out leaving a 2 and a half inch exit wound. On the shot he jumped high and then just stood there like nothing happened, keeling over shortly after. It obviously didn't have the knock down power of my 165gr barnes out of the '06 but I think the kill was very clean.

However I wouldn't even consider bringing this thing near a bear and from now on I'll stick to coyote and smaller with the 250.
 
Old Alaskan Native advice.

I had occasion to discuss at some length bear hunting with an eighty-eight year old Alaskan native who'd lived his entire life in a remote, bear-replete region. While not a recommendation, I did find his experience insightful. He told me that for black bear he only used a .22lr and shot them in the ear. For brown bear he used a "really big rifle", his father's 30-30! He wasn't malnourished and had no obvious bear-induced scars. He seemed quite creditable, sarcasism wasn't in his nature. He did look disapprovingly at my custom .375 H&H though.
 
Exception

There is an exception about using a .22-250 for bear. That is if we are talking about the great Southern Hemisphere Bear.:D
 
Is this a serious question. Although I'm sure it could be done in a perfect world I'd say "hell no"! If you are hunting bear with a 22-250 what would you use on a deer or small game, a paper clip and rubber band, maybe a dodge ball? Sorry for the sarcasm but I think that some research should have preceded this particular post.

Jeo556
 
My old man used to hunt everything with a .22-250 or .25-06 in his later years. All types of bear, elk, moose, mid-sized African game, ect...

He had previously been a big fan of the .300 Weatherby Mag., but the recoil got to be a bit much for him once he was past his 70th birthday. He was a good shot and knew a lot about critter anatomy, so nobody ever gave him much grief about it.
 
Dont worry im never going to use the 22-250 for bear.I was just seeing what you thought of it for the use on bears.Didn't know they made 220 gr bullets for the 30-40krag maybe you can give me a link to a place that sells em?
 
Dont think 22-250 is legal for bear but if your felling confidnet you can always try shooting one with the 22-250. If I were hunting black bear I would carry nothing less than a 375 Holand and Holand magnum. My personal choice would be a CZ rifle chambered for 458 Winchester magnum.
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I've never hunted much with a rifle, and I've never hunted a bear at all, but that sounds like a tad of overkill for a black bear. Plenty of them have been put to rest with a 30/30.

I don't think I'd try a 22/250 either.
 
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