If you're hunting with someone else, a .25 is more than enough.
You guys are over thinking this. If a bear comes across you, even a 9mm in your buddy's knee is going to slow him down enough to get youbsafely out of there
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You guys are over thinking this. If a bear comes across you, even a 9mm in your buddy's knee is going to slow him down enough to get youbsafely out of there
If you're hunting with someone else, a .25 is more than enough.
Predatory black bears are actually responsible for most bear attacks on humans. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/art...rs-responsible-most-human-attacks/2011/05/11/Black bear you really don't have to worry about unless you get between a sow an her cubs. But a grizzly will hunt you and you won't even know it.
After watching that video on Michigan Outdoors many years ago of a black baer that was pursuing a guy to eat him, yeah.You're afraid of black bears??