Marlin 450.
It is starting to get like that out here now... people are trying to buy them from us now... it' s funny.
Just out of curiousity, where is your guide service out of? What part of Maine? Do you guys get lots of big bruins up there? What is their avg. size? The reason I ask is that some friends of the family just recently came back from a hunt up in ME. 7 guys and they got 7 bears. The smallest was 103lb and the largest around 280lb i believe.

We only have 5 baits out and and have about a dozen good bears coming in. I took a nice 325lb boar out here last year. I don' t see anything that big this year. One sow pushing 300lb if i had to guess, but she has 2 cubs w/ her.
I' d like to know more about your outfit though...
Thanks
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