If the grouse is up on a limb taking a shot at one with an arrow puts a $30+ arrow at risk of being lost.
Wow! Enough said! Now I remember why I chose not to get into archery years ago, I still had guns to buy and couldn't afford to do both.
Another thought I had was, and I'm sure you already thought of this, is if you're using a revolver as your bear protection is to use a low-powered SWC or full wadcutter, but then again, you still have the noise factor of a short-barreled gun even at low power.
Don't know what your bear gun is, but maybe if you saved enough weight by going to the Scandium 329, you could offset the weight of a lightweight .22?
Actually you have got my curiosity up about this gun, so I sort of hope you do buy it and write up a review of it here. Selfish, I know.
