“After 14 shots and the bear is not down you have three options...”
If you are being attacked by a bear, you are not likely to have the chance to get off 14 shots. Bears can move insanely fast. In most cases you will be lucky to get off two or three rounds. If you don’t drop or drive off the bear with those first few shots you better hope your affairs are in order.
I a, on the Rast coast so my time in the woods is in black bear country. Have seen a few but I get the sense a black bear is a different critter. Even so, 1911 is what I carry. We’re I to go into brown bear country I would invest in .357 mag or better. I suspect in a brown bear attack the best you can hope for is a couple shots.
I probably outweigh the black bears I have seen ( which means they were young) but I think your standard brown bear is gonna outweigh your standard outdoorsman by a significant amount if not multiples. I would have to agree with the above, if the bear ain’t dying by round three it is probably “going to be one of those days...”