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<blockquote data-quote="jmden" data-source="post: 1088796" data-attributes="member: 1742"><p>A max of 9.5g of Longshot has you at 1287fps with 180g bullet at 662 ft. lbs. of energy. Longshot also gave the most energy in the Hodgdon online reloading with a 200g bullet at 1175ish fps and about 613 ft. lbs. of energy. I carry a .40 and have a hopped up bear load shooting a 180g XTP well over 1200fps (cases are fine and don't plan to reload these cases and I shoot very few of these particular rounds) under 8.2g Longshot (I think Hodgdon max is 7.5g), so I'm sure you could hop up that 9.5g load a bit, carefully.</p><p></p><p>Living where you do, though, I still think I'd carry bear spray and a bigger gun. Just me. I just went round and round with this debate, studied the thread above that Feenix mentioned and ended up getting DE in .50 AE. 7+1 (plenty of shootable power, and more available rounds than typical big revolvers) and my current bear load for it has nearly 1600 ft. lbs. of energy and I'm shooting with good accuracy and no brake on the 6" barrel with a 300g Hornady XTP-MAG (notice the 'MAG' designation--this particular bullet is designed with a particularly heavy jacket to help withstand the faster and very powerful (too powerful?) .50 SW, so it will make a big hole and penetrate quite deep in a .50 AE--from the research I could find it was the best bear defense bullet to fit the chambering and weapon that I had--had all the conversations with various techs at various companies about the design of their bullets for this application--even other companies recomended the XTP-MAG!). A little heavy gun to pack, but it spends most of it's time on my backpack hipbelt in a Blade Tech Level II duty paddle holster with thumb strap retention. I usually pack a 13 pound LR rig in the same spot, so a nearly 5lb pistol is barely noticed and with the paddle holster, it comes right off the pack and onto my pants when need be.</p><p></p><p>Big fan of having the non-lethal bear spray option close at hand too, but if being charged, I think the pistol would be put in action first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmden, post: 1088796, member: 1742"] A max of 9.5g of Longshot has you at 1287fps with 180g bullet at 662 ft. lbs. of energy. Longshot also gave the most energy in the Hodgdon online reloading with a 200g bullet at 1175ish fps and about 613 ft. lbs. of energy. I carry a .40 and have a hopped up bear load shooting a 180g XTP well over 1200fps (cases are fine and don't plan to reload these cases and I shoot very few of these particular rounds) under 8.2g Longshot (I think Hodgdon max is 7.5g), so I'm sure you could hop up that 9.5g load a bit, carefully. Living where you do, though, I still think I'd carry bear spray and a bigger gun. Just me. I just went round and round with this debate, studied the thread above that Feenix mentioned and ended up getting DE in .50 AE. 7+1 (plenty of shootable power, and more available rounds than typical big revolvers) and my current bear load for it has nearly 1600 ft. lbs. of energy and I'm shooting with good accuracy and no brake on the 6" barrel with a 300g Hornady XTP-MAG (notice the 'MAG' designation--this particular bullet is designed with a particularly heavy jacket to help withstand the faster and very powerful (too powerful?) .50 SW, so it will make a big hole and penetrate quite deep in a .50 AE--from the research I could find it was the best bear defense bullet to fit the chambering and weapon that I had--had all the conversations with various techs at various companies about the design of their bullets for this application--even other companies recomended the XTP-MAG!). A little heavy gun to pack, but it spends most of it's time on my backpack hipbelt in a Blade Tech Level II duty paddle holster with thumb strap retention. I usually pack a 13 pound LR rig in the same spot, so a nearly 5lb pistol is barely noticed and with the paddle holster, it comes right off the pack and onto my pants when need be. Big fan of having the non-lethal bear spray option close at hand too, but if being charged, I think the pistol would be put in action first. [/QUOTE]
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