RE: ? for you guys that have been to alaska
My first trip to Alaska, I asked a Game warden about bears. He asked what kind of guns we were carrying, I told him a 44 mag and 12 ga shotgun.
He told me to load the shotgun with two slugs and the rest with 00 buck. If I had a run in with a bear, he said two slugs in shoulder to slow him down
the rest of the buckshot into the sinus and eyes to blind him and disrupt his sense of smell. Then I was supposed to run.
He told me a Large bear can be shot in the heart, run 100 yards at 30 mph, kill the shooter before he dies.
How big a gun do you think you need?
In reality, I use a pistol as more of noise maker. Hopefully the Bang! will scare off a bear with only a casual interest.
The other advice I was given was to carry a gun whose caliberbegins with a 4
I'd look for something that can deliver 240-300grain bullet at least 1000fps at impact.