I've always wondered why some here seem to be so confident that they could stop a bear attack with a handgun, other than the fact that they know they'll never need to.
I'll bet almost every one of us has seen a small whitetail deer have both lungs blown out, and then run 100 yards before it drops.
Think about a grizzly closing on you at 45 ft. per second, giving you maybe a couple of seconds to aim and shoot, knowing you better hit the skull or spinal column or you're gonna get mauled.
When a person shoots a grizzly bear in a self defense situation, somebody's almost certain to die. Not so with bear spray.
then there's this.. old but applicable. with a lowly .357 and zero distance~he didn't draw until his leg was in the grizzly's mouth.
