.50AE ammo is much easier to find than a suitable gun to fire it in.
There may be some .50AE pump-gun conversions on the market fairly soon. ;-)
Our local bears around are are just blacks, .50AE drops them with ease, one shot.
Ahh, understood about the black bears. That’s the usual thing we see in Washington State as well (other than the every-other-year sighting of a grizzly). I feel OK with my G20 for most black bears, typically 300-400 pounds at most.
They’re but kittens compared to a full grown male grizzly, however - and I still remember feeling undergunned with a loaded .45-70 on me, a partner with a 12 GA full of 3” magnum slugs, and a grizzly eyeing us across a narrow river...
If I could have had a full Barrett M-82 I would have loved it; an M1A1 Abrams, however, would have been more comforting! Those one BIG bear and they simply aren’t scared about anything - they really are the absolute top-of-the-chain animal in Alaska. Even bull moose know to keep wide of a pissed off grizzly...