All right! All right! I call this forum to order!

Now let's go over a few things before I present Mr. mudtutl with my most important and critical piece of advice regarding his question.

In addressing Mr. Jake Biscuit ............ if you are somehow comparing a 9mm Luger round to a .357 magnum - it is not comparable other than the fact that they are both bullets. You may be seated Mr. Biscuit (Is that french? Biscuit? Bisquit? Interesting)

Mr. Mohr,Mr. Mohr! Do not sleep in my courtroom! Would you please stop counting sheep and approach the bench.

This court would also like to thank Mr. Mohr for his , as usual, excellent advice. But would also like to further recommend that Mr. mudtutl make a valid will, increase his life insuranceandgo to confession before heading out on this suicide mission. Certainly we all have a few things to get off our chests - even if it could wind up beinga bear chewing our beating heart out.

As to the choice of 9mm ammunition for your Glock, just about any commercially available ammunition will suffice for this dilema you foresee encountering. The recommendations made will work nicely.

There is one very, very important thing thatyou must remember Mr. mudtutl. If you were to forget all else - DO NOT FORGET THIS!

No matter how many rounds of this 9mm ammunition you manage to fire at this charging, attacking bear; be very, very sure that you do not fire your last round! You may want to even tape the weapon to your hand so that you will be assured that you will be able to use this last round toblow your brains out!

It will be much less painful and dignified than what the bear will do to you.

Oh the bear will kill you alright. And it's gonna hurt - ALOT I would guess. Feeling your bones snap as his HUGE jaws crush down on your arms, flailing in the air, firing errant shots as you try to fend the beast off. The smell of your own blood. The smell of the beast! The smell of his hot putrid breath. HUGE teeth snapping fingers off. His RAZOR SHARP CLAWS tearing over your ribs like Jimmi Hendrix's fingers on the guiter strings during a20 minute pot-induced
solo!POWERFUL jaws crushing your leg bones, tearing at your feet. Your boots pooling inside with blood. The sound inside your head as the teeth, those HUGE TEETH give you a scalping that wouldbring a smile to the face ofGeranimo!

Then once you stop moving one of two things will happen. Either the bear will bury you to rot so he can come back later and eat you (this is a bears prefered method of tenderizing). Or another bear will do it. They may even battle over or share your carcus, using your rib cage like a wishbone at Thansgiving dinner.

IMO: If there was even the most remote chance of this scenario playing out. If is was my lifeat stake. I would either NOT GO! Or go trade my Glock 17 in for a .44 Magnum (or similar) that can shoot BIG, HEAVY BULLETS. (There has to be something at the gun shop to trade for - something) Maybe a friend could loan ya something?

Disclaimer: Of course all of my reply is just in fun. We would love to have you back to at least make 100 posts. We don't want to read about you in some issue of Outdoor Life. I mean I don't think we need another Timothy Treadwell.