I asked the same thing in 2021 and since then I've spent quite a bit of time in bear country. With black bears I have at least a g43 with hard cast buffalo bore. Depending on what I'm doing it will be the g43, a 357 cattleman, or a 10mm 1911. Once I carried a vaquero in 44mag.
I talked to a usfs ranger that worked in brown bear country for years and he said he carried/carries a g17 full of buffalo bore and had a wml to use as a stand off so he could push the gun into the bear if it was mauling him without knocking the gun out of battery.
All that being said I stomped my foot and hollered "go on now get!" And ran one off that way.
I talked to a usfs ranger that worked in brown bear country for years and he said he carried/carries a g17 full of buffalo bore and had a wml to use as a stand off so he could push the gun into the bear if it was mauling him without knocking the gun out of battery.
All that being said I stomped my foot and hollered "go on now get!" And ran one off that way.