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10mm for Grizzly Baers

IdahoboundIdahobound Member Posts: 20,587 ✭✭✭
edited September 2018 in General Discussion
Personal I think it is smaller than I would want. I see a lot of guys buying a Glock 10mm and headed to baer country. The Gloak 10mm has enough of it own problems but I won?t bring them up in this thread.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    Grizz??? Yeahhhh,NO,,,
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    44 mag would be my minimum the glock 20 I had wouldn't stabilize the heavier bullets anything heavier then 200 grains I would get triangles in the targets
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have spent time with boots on ground in Grizzly and Alaskan Brown territory. Bear spray and a 12 g, thanks. The only handgun I would consider for an animal the size of a small pickup truck might be an Ithaca Auto-Burglar, or one of the Sebu AOW 12 g pump shorties.
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I felt that I needed a Glock and wanted to buy something heavy enough for grizzly. I would buy a Glock 45 and a .460 Rowland conversion Barrel

    The .460 Rowland produces about the same ballistics as a 44 Mag. And that would be the minimum ballistics I would want in Grizzly country

    Of course I don't have a Glock, nor particularly want to get one. But I do have a 1911, and I did buy a .460 Rowland conversion for it along with the .400 corbon conversion plus a .22 long rifle conversion for it
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  • nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by remingtonoaks
    If I felt that I needed a Glock and wanted to buy something heavy enough for grizzly. I would buy a Glock 45 and a .460 Rowland conversion Barrel

    The .460 Rowland produces about the same ballistics as a 44 Mag. And that would be the minimum ballistics I would want in Grizzly country

    Of course I don't have a Glock, nor particularly want to get one. But I do have a 1911, and I did buy a .460 Rowland conversion for it along with the .400 corbon conversion plus a .22 long rifle conversion for it


    A true renaissance man
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10mm is plenty for baers, but I sure would want something larger on Grizzly Bears.
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    10mm is plenty for baers, but I sure would want something larger on Grizzly Bears.


    [:D]
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  • sxsnufsxsnuf Member Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Depends on the bear.
    The article I read concerning the guide killed in Wyoming described the offfending bruins as a #250 sow and her #150 cub.
    I never saw any explanation as to why a 10 yr old, mature grizzly sow weighed only #250. Maybe she was sick?
    I saw another article, written some years ago, by a veteran brown bear guide on Kodiak Island.
    His sidearm of choice was a .357 loaded with hard cast bullets.
    His reasoning was that NO handgun round would likely stop a charging bruin in it's tracks with body shots. (This WAS written pre .500-.460 S&W.)He believed the smaller frontal area of the .357 would give the necessary penetration and quicker recovery from recoil would increase his chances of getting one round into the brain pan/stem.
    He felt strongly enough in this wisdom that he gifted his daughter that same handgun when she began guiding on her own.
    Arrivederci gigi
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,059 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10+ VS 6 and faster reload on the Glock? Spray and pray the bear don't maul your *. Also 10+ rounds of 10mm to get to your 12 gauge sounds much nicer than 6 rounds of .44 (that's just simple math [:D]).
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    leave the bears in their country and stay in yours (lots bigger anyway)...glad we only have killer rabbits here
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    From the way I understand in the state of Montana getting eaten by a griz is less punishment than if you kill the bear. You could rob a gas station and get less prison time.
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  • tajjntajjn Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10MM no 50BMG maybe [:D]
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  • tajjntajjn Member Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10MM no 50BMG maybe [:D]
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