Some of you may recall the pictures I posted a couple years ago when my neighbor was charged by Grizzly sow with two cubs, he got one shot off as she came down on him and it entered just above her head and broke her spine, she died after knocking him down. This was a greenhorn to Alaska who had never even seen a bear before and his first encounter was being attacked, he was shooting a 30-06 with 180 grain bullets that he brought with him from down south. My answer to me is either gun mentioned as they are both more than capable of doing the job if you are adapt at using one of them.
The details about this event was he was running his two labs along the treeline in a large cleared LZ the military uses for training, and some guy had some snares along the tree line and had accidentally snout snared a cow mooose which had died, this sow and her cubs were feeding on the cow when he came down the treeline and suprised them.
