You know sometimes if all you have is a handgun you might be better off with nothing. I used to hike into a small stream to salmon fish with a .308 thinking it was far better than a .44 mag, which was the most powerful handgun at the time. Walked up on a sow with two cubs, it was a beautiful on Kodiak, a rare one indeed, and I was taking everything in and not paying attention. At about 50 feet that sow looked like the empire state building when she stood up with her cubs huddled between her legs. I took aim at that big old head and knew that I was about to die. I figured I might get one shot if I took it, then unless it dropped her in her tracks she would be pounding me before I had a chance to even think about shot #2. Instead I started to back up real slow yelling and making as much noise as I could. Luckily I had the wind at my back and she had the morning sun in her eyes. She dropped and ambled away with her cubs.
It is a fact that far too many people would have simply pulled the trigger because they had a gun and had read countless stories about bears eating people and therefore believed it was their only option.
I even knew of one idiot who actually went out looking to push bears into a charge because he wanted t see if he was man enough to shoot and kill and therefore able to tell all his friends was a real man he was. Of course he ended up killing a bear, proved he was a real man and for what! You know folks in Alaska really get tired of all this handguns for bear talk.
It is a fact that far too many people would have simply pulled the trigger because they had a gun and had read countless stories about bears eating people and therefore believed it was their only option.
I even knew of one idiot who actually went out looking to push bears into a charge because he wanted t see if he was man enough to shoot and kill and therefore able to tell all his friends was a real man he was. Of course he ended up killing a bear, proved he was a real man and for what! You know folks in Alaska really get tired of all this handguns for bear talk.