JSH
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My money is on the bear………Real men don’t need no stinking guns !View attachment 1570192
Never been around them. If I were to visit or hunt a known bear area, I would have already been testing and reading from those that have been there done that, got the T shirt. Handling heavy recoiling pistols is not easy and is learned. Practice, practice.
As I turned older and later in life, I now have a great deal of respect for 45 Colt Blackhawk loads, I see no need for me to have something more obnoxious that I can’t control, the 45 lot with heavy loads is no joke.( edit had to add, I have a 480 Ruger Bisley that is now loaded down, that I’ll always have). It is a hard thumper, but many can’t handle it for a cylinder full and do well.
I have no worries about any feds involved if I were ever to get in the predicament of me shooting a bear, I deal with that when the time comes if I were to come out on top.
The OP with his light rig, may well look more towards a heavy 44 Special load rather than a full tilt magnum. Once again multiple shots, administered in a vital small target.
If you’re a nervous, jittery, spooky fellow you maybe should rethink your vacation area. This is in regards to the comments on adrenaline, a chemical that can not be controlled by many, but all of us have.
Look at YouTube on Mark Sullivan, he is collected in the ways of adrenaline. He doesn’t walk funny enough to have cajones as big as bowling balls.
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