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Posted on 10/30/2025 7:16:25 AM PDT by marktwain
One of the significant advantages of using handguns to defend against bear attacks is that defense with a handgun is far more likely to result in a dead bear. This is a highly desirable result. Bears that attack humans should be killed. Killing aggressive bears is a way to condition the bear population to avoid humans.
The false premise implicit in the argument for non-lethal defenses against bears is that there are such small numbers of bears that killing a bear removes a valuable resource from the bear genetic pool. This view had some legitimacy about 1975-1980, when the population of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states was at its lowest level. This is no longer true.
Bear populations are on the rise all over the world. None of the three bears that live in North America has ever been endangered. Even the populations of grizzly bears that lived in the lower 48 states were only listed as “threatened”, not endangered. Today, we have at least three times as many grizzly bears in the lower 48 as in 1977. The grizzly bear population in the lower 48 is increasing at a significant rate. It is well over 2,000 bears and is probably approaching 3,000 grizzly bears.
When grizzly bears were not protected in the United States, only those bears that learned to avoid humans survived. By 1900, grizzly bears had become wary of humans and even dogs. Once bears were given artificial protection from humans, they started to lose their fear of humans. The grizzly bears in the lower 48 states kill humans at 30 times the rate per bear of grizzly bears in Alaska. The small population of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states is responsible for more human fatalities than the larger population of grizzly bears in Alaska.
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Get a bunch with a BB going 4000fps
I have shot bears with rifles, shotguns and handguns.
Hunting and self-defense is two different things with different out comes desired.
Going from BB to a 45 mag is far different from 357 mag to 45acp.
The large deference between a 45acp and a hot loaded 45 colt .Even more so with the super mags like a 454 or a 460S@W in the terms of power.
Bullet selection and placing rounds on target is far more important in a self-defense situation then caliber.
If one knows when something bad is going to happen. One just avoids going there.
LOL
from that article:
“The friends could not follow the second round wound channel, because the head, skin, and paws had to be turned in.”
Non hunter* here: what’s that all about?
*(love to go hog hunting one day)
thx
Gives you more energy but that does not always equal tp greeter stopping power.
To many variables when it comes to shooting live target’s to always hold true.
from that article:
“The friends could not follow the second round wound channel, because the head, skin, and paws had to be turned in.”
Non hunter* here: what’s that all about?
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