I spend a lot of time in bear country, and while there are those who advocate for bear spray or a black-plastic trash bag, I bring firepower to that fight. Bears have teeth and claws and about a hundred pounds on me, and no amount of mace or flimsy plastic is gonna make me feel better compared to the stopping power of 17 rounds of hollowpoints. And it's how a lot of my ilk travel these days, as human encroachment into traditional bear ecosystems, along with a lot of people feeding them, has made bear encounters more frequent and more dangerous.
Both for the bears and the humans.
