I'd like to publicly thank Ann from AspenHills Safaris for finding this out for me. I could easily have booked a hunt and tickets and not found this out 'til I cleared the rifle through Australian customs.

Ann has been most attentive in trying to arrange a black bear hunt taking into account my (hopefully transient) physical problems - I'm on crutches and can't put any weight on one leg so still hunting is out of the question.

Ann is looking into hunts in Idaho for me now - I assume I can take a rifle into the US. Perhaps that's a silly assumption.

mike