>>2593420Though you did correct him and you're technically right, I think his overall point was caliber doesn't matter much. Those numbers show there's clearly not enough data to make much or any inferences on caliber performance on bears. People have been carrying 44 magnum in the woods SPECIFICALLY for wildlife defense longer than they've been carrying 9mms for bear defense (due to mistrust in wonky low capacity and unreliable semi-autos from the past with weaker loads). Now 9mm is becoming, if not, has flat out become the most common woods cartridge regarding wildlife handguns since people are simply carrying their CCW piece.
That being said, 37 cases all successful is a pretty neat number. I don't live in bear country, but if I did, I'd probably split the difference and get something like
>>2593404 15 rounds of 10mm loaded to 357 mag tier levels makes for a pretty neat woods gun. I'm jelly anon. How do you carry your pistol? OWB or some type of chest carrier?
I've been carrying pic related with 45 super on a Blackhawk serpa OWB. I am sending a 230g FMJ round at almost 1200 fps out of this bad boy.
