7.62 for Bear?

Snyper85

Snyper85

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I plan on going Bear hunting for the first time this year in the adirondack mountains. The only large caliber gun i have is a 7.62x54 mosin nagant with a syn stock and a 29 in barrel. Is this round good enough to take down a black bear?
 
With soft point bullets yes. It is somewhere very close to a .30-06 in power. A .308 Winchester is a 7.62X51 and the .30-06 is a 7.62X63. Your rimmed cartridge may be loaded to lower pressures but it is still plenty powerful enough to kill Pigs, Bear, Deer and Elk.
 
Some of the older Military rifles are hard to mount a scope on so depending on the rifle you may be stuck with iron sights....
 
I was not familiar with this rifle, but a search produced a very informative site: http://7.62x54r.net/

You said it was sythetic stocked. Is it synthetic or laminate?

Just based on what I read it sounds like only corrosive ammo is available, and I suspect that will not be great hunting type ammo.

Which particular rifle do you have based on the info in the link?
 
Not sure the rifle but I was envisioning a Mosin Nagant when I answered his post. I know a few people who bought them because they are inexpensive and ammo is cheap.
 
That would work fine for bear, pick up a couple different boxes of soft point ammo (Barnaul,Prvi Partizan,Wolf, Sellier Bellot)and see which groups the best.
 
More than enough. The 54R is roughly the same on the receiving end as a 30-06 and if you reload you can put together the same premium rounds as you can for anything else. I've never hunted mine but it's a neat little gun. I got my brass from graff & sons.

For the price and a little work, mosins are pretty decent.

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