I was in Alaska two months ago. That’s what our ATV tour guide was carrying in a nice chest rig, a big stainless .44 mag revolver with a set of reloads.
The funny part was, when the email confirmation for the tour came back, it said the tour included bottled water, trail mix snack, and *bear repellent*. I told my wife I was uninterested in bear repellent that wasn’t a firearm in a caliber starting with a four. This a result of reading all Dean’s articles.
So my son and I show up, there’s Jake the guide equipped as described above, and I immediately approved his bear repellent!
No bears were sighted on our tour. Though we did look for them.
“I told my wife I was uninterested in bear repellent that wasn’t a firearm in a caliber starting with a four.”
Size isn’t always the answer to dropping a grizzly, it’s placement. Bears have been dropped with a 9 MM. But like Gallagher said, “you’ve got to hit that sucker just right.”
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