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While I've only hunted black bear once I would never use a .22-250 legal or not for bear. Sure you can kill them with it but if you make a less than perfect shot do you want to be tracking a wounded animal it. While black bears are not very scary (at least not to me) they do move very fast and have big claws and teeth. The idea of tracking a wounded animal that can move fast and put a hurtin on you with those claws and teeth is very scary to me to say the least. I think when hunting any bear you want to put them down hard and fast so the heavier the bullet the better.
hunter33 you have that .30-40 Krag, find some 220 grain round nose cartridges and go shoot a bear with that. I'm sure you will have better results with that than you will any .22-250. If you decide to hunt a bear let us know how it turns out.
BTW this is what I mean about claws!
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