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10MM for backcountry self defense
kselkhunter:
10mm should be fine for your purpose.
Plus you never know you may archery hunt one year and not have a rifle along. I always pack my revolver on archery, muzzy, and spring turkey trips.
I've pulled my revolver twice at night on mountain lions on archery trips while hiking back to camp in the dark. And called in the largest black bear I've ever seen on a spring turkey hunt one year. You never know when you'll see a predator, and during which weapon season.
Griz - yeah I'm still deploying bear spray. I've had a griz at 30 yards once, and as nervous as I was there is no way I could personally hit one in the head if charging me at 10 yards with my handgun. But that's my personal experience. There are guys on here that would be much more calm and cool in that instance than I was.
ctwiggs1:
--- Quote from: kselkhunter on July 21, 2017, 09:40:02 AM ---10mm should be fine for your purpose.
Plus you never know you may archery hunt one year and not have a rifle along. I always pack my revolver on archery, muzzy, and spring turkey trips.
I've pulled my revolver twice at night on mountain lions on archery trips while hiking back to camp in the dark. And called in the largest black bear I've ever seen on a spring turkey hunt one year. You never know when you'll see a predator, and during which weapon season.
Griz - yeah I'm still deploying bear spray. I've had a griz at 30 yards once, and as nervous as I was there is no way I could personally hit one in the head if charging me at 10 yards with my handgun. But that's my personal experience. There are guys on here that would be much more calm and cool in that instance than I was.
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I would be calmly filling my trousers I'm sure.
Scheindogg:
--- Quote from: ctwiggs1 on July 21, 2017, 09:44:20 AM ---
I would be calmly filling my trousers I'm sure.
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I literally LOL at this several times throughout the day
Stein:
--- Quote from: ctwiggs1 on July 21, 2017, 08:48:05 AM ---
--- Quote from: Stein on July 21, 2017, 08:20:41 AM ---The way I look at it is that if a bear charged, I would have a very, very short period of time to respond so I would look at the effectiveness of 1-2 rounds vs having capacity that won't be used. So, I would carry a .44 revolver that has much more capability to do something with 1-2 shots over a lesser round.
If you don't stop it in the first or maybe second shot, it's going to be on you and 1,000 rounds in the handle isn't going to help.
That said, I carry bear spray.
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So you'd drop the high powered rifle in your hands and go for the revolver?
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Yep, I don't carry the rifle loaded. I would absolutely go for the spray before trying to jack a round in and taking that one precious shot from the hips Rambo style.
I'll take the high odds every day.
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257 Wby Mag:
--- Quote from: Scheindogg on July 20, 2017, 09:37:22 PM ---Here comes a hot topic and hopefully not TOO heated a conversation :sry: :chuckle:
I've been looking for a new handgun just in general for a while to have that holds more than my M&p shield (8+1) and a longer barrel (less than 3.5inches currently)
Since I plan on high buck this year I know I'll be in bear country and even potentially grizzly country.
Let's NOT get into a debate about wether I should use spray or a gun, I'm not going there.
Let's just say **** hits the fan and the last resort is a handgun, how would a glock 20 do?
I know it sure as h-e-double hockey sticks would be better than nothing and still substantially better than a 9mm or .40 (especially if the 10mm I choose is a load packed to the 10mm's potential)
No I don't want a revolver that I will only ever use when I'm hunting, I want a semi-auto like a glock (I shoot glocks well)
Wht do you guys think?
Any of you have a glock 20 and want to share your experiences?
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If you have ask that, you should stick to golf....
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