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104 Cases Of Handguns Used For Bear Defense Worldwide Documented By Caliber This is part of research which began in 2016, with first published data released in 2018. If I am not mistaken, the current total is the 205 cases mentioned above in post #348 and also mentioned earlier in this thread...

Another vote for "None". I wouldn't buy any rifle without iron sights, much less a premium rifle like a Rigby. I would never carry a gun with no irons in a place where DG exists, even if that was not the quarry I was seeking. Really, I don't think I would ever carry a rifle afield without...

Point taken about the OP asking about AFRICAN DG. If not such a legal pain in the main drain, I would probably take a 44mag to Africa, but certainly would hate to have to use it on anything, especially anything bigger than lion. I would still much prefer a 44mag to throwing rocks or kicking...

DOCUMENTED CASES OF HANDGUN ONLY DEFENSE ATTEMPTS AGAINST BEARS Cases by case reports. I am starting to broaden my perspective a little about your chances of defending yourself with a handgun against really big bears. There is a writer who has spent a LOT of time researching DOCUMENTED cases...

I know this is an old thread, but home bullet making can breathe new life into some of the hard to find big bores. If you swage your own bullets, you can shoot these big 500's as much as you want (not that I want to shoot them too much), same as casting, but you get a superior bullets and can...

Except the 357 will actually penetrate much better.

No handgun and few rifles seem "big and formitable" when it comes to charge stopping.

Great Question. 405 Win is a grand old cartridge, and case capacity is very close to 400 Whelen, but 405 cases are rated to 46,000psi, while the 400 Whelen cases are rated to 60,000psi. 405 seems to top out around 1900fps with 400gr bullet, and the 400 Whelen tops out at about 2200fps with a...

I think if I were going to hunt elephant with a lever, I would rebarrel a Browning 1895 in 400 Whelen and have a box magazine. With the Whelen you get about 100fps or more than the 405 Win with the same bullet. Ed Stevenson also used a very similar Browning 1895 on the big bears with great...

They way you do that is buy a Browning instead of a Winchester. It is the same gun, except the Browning is still the way John Moses intended, it doesn't have the tang safety.

The late Ed Stevenson, a bear guide in AK for around 40 years, often carried a Browning Miroku 1886 in 45-70 with a 405gr bullet at around 2000fps for backing hunters in brown bear country. He came to this decision after being mauled by an unwounded bear that a 375 H&H failed to stop on a...

Many do carry the 10mm. In certain circumstances more cartridges would be a plus, in certain circumstances more power is a plus. In the circumstance in the video, the hunter started shooting a 30 yards (I don't think you can shoot much sooner in a DLP situation), and by the 5th shot the bear...

OK, HERE WE GO !!!!! This guy actually did it. He stopped a charge on a 10'+ Brown Bear with a handgun. He was hunting Brown Bear with a 338 RUM. In my opinion this proves it is not enough gun. After 2 shots through the vitals, and a third neck shot that barely missed the spine, the bear...

1. Well "hunter" speared the buff while out of harms way safely up in a big tree. Must have been subsequent to the water buffalo incident. SAFE FOR THE "HUNTER" 2. He did not follow-up the wounded buff until the next day. There seemed to be plenty of light when the buff was struck, I wonder...

I could not agree more, although I admittedly know nothing about spear chucking. It appears a relatively young and small water buffalo. I wonder if a full size Cape Buffalo might not have bull-dozed straight through the termite mound and right onto the spear chucker guy. Who knows, but I...