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BEAR GUNS: defend, guide, & hunt with these top guns, cartridges, and bullets.
Episode 17

BEAR GUNS: defend, guide, & hunt with these top guns, cartridges, and bullets.

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

April 29, 20191h 28m

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Show Notes

SHOW NOTES:

• Three different needs: Hunting, Guiding, & Defense

• Two primary species: Black bear & Grizzly/brown bear

• Firearms, cartridges, & bullets for each need & each species

• Black bears & the "deer cartridge myth"

• Bears & age: size, tenacity, physiology, and mentality

• Tony Russ's 16 points for shooting bears (quoted)

• Backup guns for guides: When stopping, not just killing, is necessary

• Self Defense against bears: rifles, shotguns, & handguns

• The Big-Bore Revolver vs. 10mm Semiauto Pistol debate

• Bear attack & survival true stories & lessons learned

RESOURCES:

Bryce Towsley speed-shooting big-bore revolver video: https://www.americanhunter.org/.../video-the-454-casull.../

.45-70 Lever-action Trapper: https://www.marlinfirearms.com/lever-action/model-1895-big-bore/model-1895-trapper

.416 Ruger Guide Rifle: https://www.ruger.com/products/guideGun/models.html

.480 Ruger Super Blackhawk Bisley: https://www.ruger.com/products/newModelSuperBlackhawkBisley/models.html

Kimber 10mm 1911: https://www.kimberamerica.com/custom-tle-rl-ii-tfs

Glock 10mm G20: https://us.glock.com/en/pistols/g20-gen4

Springfield 10mm XD(m): https://www.springfield-armory.com/products/xdm-4-5-10mm/