[Vaquero]

If “ Mock was an accomplished woodsman and guide” he would have had a gun.

A .44 magnum with short barrel is easy to pack. Medium to large caliber rifles are good. A 12 gauge with sabot slugs are devastating at close range. A light short barreled pump is easy to sling and carry

[Bonemaker]

"He did not have a firearm with him."

"Tsk, tsk"

[Seruzawa]

45-70 hardcast will do very nicely.

[nomorelurker]

A .44 magnum with short barrel is easy to pack. Medium to large caliber rifles are good. A 12 gauge with sabot slugs are devastating at close range. A light short barreled pump is easy to sling and carry

Watched some kind travel show a year or so ago, Canada I think. Woman was doing the dog sled trip out to observe seals thing. Guide carried a 12 gauge (by law I think) first loaded round or two were some kind of deterrent blanks after that slugs. This would of course be on flat snowy ground and worry would be polar bear not grizzly and presumably surprise would not be factor particularly with the dogs. My shooting skills are not what they used to be so as much as I might like the 45-70 in a leaver gun I would carry a 12 gauge loaded with slugs with one or two buckshot as last resort, if I was out in grizzly land.