the thing i see with carring a side arm with 15 or more rounds is that these handguns are not hunting calibers. 9mm, 40, 41, 45 ACP are not used for hunting. these are not backup calibers. a handgun needs to have enough power to kill an animal. those calibers above would tend to wound deer or bear. in a bears case it would tend to tick them off. revolvers that shoot heavy calibers such as 41, 44, 454, would be a better choice.