Mystery Lake / Trapper's Homestead / Bear advice please!

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Dear forums, I am about 4 days into a Voyageur run on Mystery Lake, no luck yet finding a rifle but will check another couple of locations and hopefully get one.

By the Trapper's Homestead, down and eastwards is a very handy area where rabbits can be caught (sort of round towards Max's Last Stand), and I'd like to be able to catch them. But on this run I've got a large brown friend roaming the area.

Assuming I find a rifle, do you have any advice on how to tackle the bear? I have read plenty about different ways to try killing a bear in general... so what I want is advice on tackling a bear in THIS exact location. Any good places to stand / hide? Lure it to the homestead maybe, shoot then go inside?

Thanks!

[H34VY_R41N]

Going inside will likely reset the bear. Shoot from the tree near his den or climb on the rock where he can not.

[Nogen]

Or, easier yet, you usually have a rabbit grove just right behind the Trapper's Homestead. It's literally 5 seconds away when you step out the door (when you're out, turn left about 100°) and it's always wolves and bears free.

[deelee58]

I usually use the fallen tree opposite of the shed (the long one leaning up on the rocks). I climb up and wait for the bear to top the hill to the right of the tree and when he is within range I shoot him. He can't climb the tree or reach me up there so if I don't kill him with my first bullet then he can run around and bleed out while I am safe. Works very well.

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Excellent advice from you all, many thanks!

Nogen, yes I know about those rabbits but there are only two there. Also, I'd just like to take out that darn bear – he worries me (and I just want to shoot a bear).