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something to consider Cub
Posted by RobR on Nov 29 2005
While even a rifle may not STOP a bear, a handgun serves two possible purposes in a bear encounter. One, it makes a loud noise and can scare a bear perhaps stopping an aggressive encounter in that manner. Secondly, and the reason I carry a .45LC cross draw (on my belly) in brown bear country, is that if a bear gets to me I have a weapon that I may have the opportunity to access and stick in his mouth or ear and kill him with.
Unlike you, in the area where I hunt encounters with coastal brownies is a daily (or nightly) occurrence. The last trip I saw 26 different bears in 6 days - all of the within 200 yards and with the closest about 10 yards (a sow and two cubs). As of yet I have not had a bad encounter, but if 1 in 100 encounters turns bad, the odds are pretty good that I will have a problem at some point. I take a lot of precautions, the handgun is one of them.
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