John Hightower wrote:

I'm pretty comfortable with things that go bang- what I've read is if your
hunting bear in AK, the guides up there don't like to see you with anything
lighter than a .375 h&h. The 7mm, .308, .338 cal's don't leave a big enough
hole for all the blood to leak out of fast enough. I'd sure hate to have a
****ed off one comming at me even if I had S&W .500. Have to be either a
real lucky shot, or enough noise to make him/her stop or turn.

I, for one, will not turn down an offer of free bear spray, but I'm not
deluding myself that bear spray would have stopped that monster.

I just don't want to be in the position of thinking, "****. I should
have taken that bear spray."

I regret credulously posting a link to a half-true story. That gory
picture of the ex-hiker was irresistible.

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