another part of the reason for the barrel.
After this time in AK one of the Thiokol drivers on my division was a Grizzly guide.
My partner Tyler is going up in Sept to hunt Griz and Caribou.
The guy guiding him told him he really doesn't need a side arm because he will have his rifle so Tyler sold his Ruger Alaskan 454 to get more money for the trip.
The guy I spent time with said BS.....he had two guys get mauled when they went to take a dump.....I told him what Tyler's guide said and he laughed and asked if he had another pistol, I told him a 9mm, he laughed again. I said I had a 10mm Auto and he said give it to him for the trip with 220 hard cast Buffalo Bore. He had two guys get out of trouble with G20's one was a young moose charging and the other was an old black bear, killed them both ......the bear was dead in 3 shots, he said at reasonable distance the Buffalo Bore's will make it through a Grizzly skull