Any of you stop a charge with a handgun?

We are talking about hunting dangerous game in Africa. Unless you are hunting with a handgun, you won't have one. I would hate to depend on that primary firearm as my charge stopper on any dangerous game. I'll opt for a fast, accurate first and second shot with my rifle.
Honestly the closest I will probably have a chance at dg
Would be a water buff hunt on one of the ranches. I am not saying I will do that by any means but I can guarantee I would have on my 44 Blackhawk
Just in case.
I really guess it comes form all ways having one on legal since 19 except for days in the hospital.
We are not going to go into before 19
What was legal and what was allowed might not be the same.
 
Phil Shoemaker, GrizzlySkins Outfitting in Alaska, took out a large brown bear with a pistol (45 or 9mm I am not sure). An amazing story at very close range.
 
I saw a couple of interviews of that from Phil Shoemaker himself. To be more specific according to him it was a broadside shot...

The bear was standing on top of his clients and Phil was roughly around 20 or so feet away and shot the bear behind the shoulder broadside. The bear did not charge Phil head on...

@ 6:30 in the video below...
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Do people even read threads anymore? Or just comment
 
Wow! Thank you. Great info.

Amazing how a much lighter copper or brass mono-metal can out penetrate a much heavier hard cast lead bullet...

Did you ever get the chance to try out the Lehigh Defense/Underwood Xtreme Penetrator?
Yeah. Doesnt go near as deep as a wfn/lfn solid and doesnt do near as much damage as an aframe or barnes so i dont use em. Not great at anything but ok at penetration and damage but it is neat to see the x shaped cut in the tissue.
 
One of our esteemed members suggested some years ago it should be possible to kill a buffalo with a properly loaded frozen herring. Probably true. Perhaps the spear chucker should try that next. The OP asked it a handgun would be useful in stopping dangerous game. Congrats on the two bulls - were they charging?
One was but we were in an area that would make recovery very very difficult. It was a very very aggressive old bull. We were on a rock he couldnt get up to and he ran up and was putting his head on the rock trying to get at us then ran off. I shot him about 400 yards further down the path where it opened up and was accessible. The zulu tracker had my video cam and somehow instead of hitting record he got it into still mode and just snapped a pic before he made it onto the rock/boulder. This is it.
 

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