Neat thread! I hunt both brown and black bear every year. Already in the planning process for where/when to put up a bait station for black bear this spring. Also getting info gathered for where I want to hunt spring grizzlies. Will be going north for sure, seeing as how there is plenty of them up there. Having a hard time deciding which gun though, either the .338 Winnie this year, or one of the two new 300 WSM that I have.