[Vaquero]

Readers are encouraged to report any incidents of defensive uses of pistols against bears that are not recorded in the latest update of the database of known and documented incidents. Send the information to Dean Weingarten, via AmmoLand.

No! Three S's. Shoot Shovel and Shutup.

[joe fonebone]

When my dad and his friends were young men, they would go bow hunting.
The 3 of them were set up in a line about 40 yards apart, when a pair of black bear cubs came wandering into the opening they were hunting. Bad news.
Then mama came in charged them a little, then got up on her hind legs and started walking toward John. John had a .357 revolver.
He shot mama right between the eyes. Dropped her at about 10 feet away. They hauled the bear out and loaded it onto a pickup truck and took it to the local dnr office.
Another bad move.
All 3 of them took crap from the state for months over that bear.

3 s is the way to go.