Really? How much effect do you think the location of the problem bear has on firearm selection? Though the guy that caught the PoPo-sent ricochet slug in the chest after it went through a black bear down in Seward a year or three ago might not agree.
All those guides are really advocating using a slug/buckshot alternating magazine load for bear hunting? You sure about that?
Many of the ADF&G bios are pretty solid... some, not so much... But the techs with how much firearms training? And from whom?
Have you ever shot a big animal with a dose of 00 buckshot?
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.