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45 ACP on Brown Bear.????
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<blockquote data-quote="IllinoisBurt" data-source="post: 2826375" data-attributes="member: 35752"><p>The primary thing is to be worth anything in a bear defense (or any other for that matter) the gun has to be one your person and ready to draw/shoot during a surprise encounter. Long guns that just doesn't happen because you set it down to do things with your hands altogether too often so that leaves us with handguns. Sticking a heavy revolver in your pack is worthless as many unfortunately have discovered. So something on your belt or in a chest rig. Also needs to be something you can actually shoot in a hurry without a rest, preferably one-handed. That rules out the super magnum revolvers for me. I can shoot my 44s fairly well, but definitely not getting a second shot off one handed with any speed or accuracy. So that leaves us with basic duty sized autos (leaving compacts out since they tend to be smaller caliber). In the end these are all compromises. A 45 in a chest rig seems like a pretty reasonable choice loaded with +p hardcast. Are there more powerful choices? Sure but that doesn't mean this is a bad one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IllinoisBurt, post: 2826375, member: 35752"] The primary thing is to be worth anything in a bear defense (or any other for that matter) the gun has to be one your person and ready to draw/shoot during a surprise encounter. Long guns that just doesn't happen because you set it down to do things with your hands altogether too often so that leaves us with handguns. Sticking a heavy revolver in your pack is worthless as many unfortunately have discovered. So something on your belt or in a chest rig. Also needs to be something you can actually shoot in a hurry without a rest, preferably one-handed. That rules out the super magnum revolvers for me. I can shoot my 44s fairly well, but definitely not getting a second shot off one handed with any speed or accuracy. So that leaves us with basic duty sized autos (leaving compacts out since they tend to be smaller caliber). In the end these are all compromises. A 45 in a chest rig seems like a pretty reasonable choice loaded with +p hardcast. Are there more powerful choices? Sure but that doesn't mean this is a bad one. [/QUOTE]
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