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Bear protection handguns?

200gr puppy dog at 1100 or buffalo bore style at 1200+? Some are loaded light and some heavy. Or is it negligible?
I don't think it matters. Whether it's mass or speed it force on the spring. The faster you get more weight going though, the more exasperated the effect. So 200 at 1100 might be a challenge, 200 hot at 1200+ more so. Directionally the same.
 
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Black bears are not close to their counterparts Grizzly or Brown bears, and are much easier to kill. I took a 6 1/2' boar with a. 357 Mag and 158gn round nose Speer bullet over 20 years ago. I've also taken one with a. 243 Winchester. It has been my experience that boar bears bluff charge you then turn and run but if you get between a sow and cub, your butt will pucker just as she begins biting the daylights out of you. It happened to a buddy of mine so fast one time when we were elk hunting that the other two of us couldn't get a shot before she was gone with her cub. He was packing a S&W Model 29 and never got his hand on it. I believe bear spray today is the best thing to carry. If nothing else, you can spray it on yourself to make you less tasty!
Prior to a trip to NW Montana, I heard the grizzlies had an appetite for white meat with plenty of pepper for seasoning.

JH
 
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