[beebuster2000]

ridiculous advice. having been charged by a bear, including two bears at once, i can assure you your chance of stopping one with a handgun in a real world situation is next to zero. you would have to hit the brain, which is a rapidly moving target.

any experienced bear country guides i ever travelled with rely on shotgun.

i had one Alaska guide make this comment about my carrying my 454 Casul:

“yes, that will be helpful. you can use it to signal for help after the bear chews your arm off”

[Obadiah]

I LOL’d when I read this. A freekin’ snub nose?? Yeah, good luck with that. A 700lb grizzly charging close range at 30 mph and you got a snub nose? And just what do you imagine you’d hit? The camper 2 clicks away and to the left?

Nope, I prefer an auto shotgun but would use a pump action in a pinch.

[marktwain]

ridiculous advice. having been charged by a bear, including two bears at once, i can assure you your chance of stopping one with a handgun in a real world situation is next to zero. you would have to hit the brain, which is a rapidly moving target.

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Then there should be multiple cases of failures of handguns when used in defense against bears.

They do not seem to be out there.

But we have at least nine cases where handguns were used to good effect against bear attacks.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/10/where-are-bear-attack-pistol-failures.html

[Mr Rogers]

A guy I knew who worked in Alaska was issued a 375 H&H Magnum (300 grain bullet at 2600 fps). He had to qualify by shooting it from the hip. He considered it a little small for his taste.