As luck would have it, the very next week I saw a news report where a guy in Alaska had been attacked by a brown bear and had saved his life with a Ruger .44 mag.
I suspect that story is still floating around about no one ever saving their life with a handgun from a bear.
On another subject, I have also read more than once that there are quite a lot more people killed by black bears than grizzly's. The reason of course being that the black bears are found much more often in areas with a lot of people.