Last of the Mohicans: Chapters 20-25

I found a lot of weird quirks and holes in logic in these chapters. First of all I think it's very odd and moderately hilarious that Hawkeye named his rifle. That's cute, I mean I named my car but I don't go around killing people with Reba. Then the whole thing with Hawkeye disguised as a bear made absolutely no sense. Have these people seen a bear before? I feel like native living in the woods would know what a bear looks like. And could clearly identify a fake bear. I just felt like it was a ridiculous plan that would not have worked in real life. I like that Alice has been saved but kind of confused as to why the girls were even split up. I don't know, these chapters didn't seem to make that much real world sense to me.