I would also suggest some pepper spray. It is a real romantic thought to put an arrow into a bear that is going to attack you, if he was bluffing you changed his mind and if he wasn' t the arrow won' t deter him. As for the pistol, you were still shaking as you typed this, scared you pretty bad, could you draw the pistol aim it and hit the bear between the eyes or at the base of the skull, the only two shots that are going to knock him down and stop him as he is charging. Much easier to hit them with a thirty foot cloud of pepper spray. You need to get the bear spray, not the stuff they sell for women to put on their keychain. Check local laws though as the bear spray may be illegal on the east coast.