bigbulls

You originally said you were going brown bear hunting and now you say that you are going bear hunting in North Georgia. There are no brown bears in Georgia, only black bears.

So basically this entire thread has nothing to do with the actual bear hunt you are going on. [&:]

For black bears the 308 or 30-06 will do just fine. There isn't a nickles worth of differance in the two. Especially at the close range you are likely to shoot one in Georgia.A big black bear in Georgia will weigh in about 300 pounds. Not the 1100 pound bears in Alaska.