RE: mauser goin bear hunting?!?
I grew up in upstate NY and used to see some bear while deer hunting. You most likely won' t find em in open hardwood country. All the ones I come across was in ledgy, rock cliff areas. Get up on the ledges and push through them slowly. Be careful cause you get em' up out of their beds alot that way and thye' re sometimes a little grumpy bout being woke up.