Bear protection handguns?

[meatyrem]

200gr puppy dog at 1100 or buffalo bore style at 1200+? Some are loaded light and some heavy. Or is it negligible?

 

[ObiWanKannoli]

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.

 

[WYO300RUM]

Underwood 200 gr. 1250 fps.
Grizzly 220 gr. 1200 fps
HSM 200 gr. 1041 fps
My loads

 

[meatyrem]

Yeah I've seen several different brands all differing velocities. I watched a video a guy testing different 10mm ammo and he found the underwood severely low in velocity with his chrono. The ones that were true to speed were buffalo bore and I think doubletap. Grizzly was close to the advertising vel

 

[meatyrem]

Don't have any of those yet but just have some home defense fur mine. Hope to someday soon get either loads made up or some heavy hitters from buffalo bore to try out.

 

[meatyrem]

Just not sure if the 22lb spring I have is enough maybe I should also get the 24lbs spring??

 

[ObiWanKannoli]

Just not sure if the 22lb spring I have is enough maybe I should also get the 24lbs spring??

Have you function tested it? 24 lbs is really heavy.

 

[meatyrem]

I ran 170 JHP in it with the 22lb and it did okay. It seemed just a little sluggish like it was out of sinc but still cycled

 

[Magnum44270]

Zero need for a pistol. But if you must your everyday 9mm will work fine.
Keep it small and light

 

[meatyrem]

9mm would be better than not having it at all. But personally I'd go with something a little larger more mass and about twice the powder charge.

 

[Husky user]

What would be considered a heavy 10mm round?

Hunting Shack 305 gr Bear Loads

 

[meatyrem]

Are you sure that's a 10mm round and not a 44?

 

[meatyrem]

 

[Jeff Heeg osoh]

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