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If you have the opportunity for the precision shot placement that might make a smaller, lighter caliber sufficient, you probably aren't in a seriously threatening situation with a bear, (not that there aren't some other situations where DLP isn't also called for.) But I'd still prefer at least 220 grains on the low end - and preferably more weight- at speeds that deliver the bullet before the critter hears the shot. It's hard not to like a 44 Mag with 270 or weightier non-expanding slugs.