re: What’s your backcountry carry?

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Unless I am in grizzly country I am not carrying anything other than a pocket knife (unless I'm hunting)

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... and then just a big can of bear spray.

Camping in Montana its a Redhawk 5" 44 mag loaded with Buffalo bore ammo in chest holder dependent on location. Everywhere else I have a Ruger SP 101 which is short barreled but ported with Buffalo Bore ammo. Both are a handful to touch off but blow things up. Carry the Ruger SP with conventional jacketed hollow points around the urban jungle much easier to get rely on fast shots. Nah I haven't thought about this often.

Recently got a custom made Damascus steel Bowie knife. It’s massive and razor sharp. When I head deep into the woods to catch snakes, I carry my Bowie with me in case I get attacked by an angry bobcat. Well not so much the bobcats...but I’ve watched Deliverance.

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Are you going to throw your skittles at the beer?

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I mean, if I have to. I'm going to try the large caliber rifle first, though.

I'll be in some bear country next week. I have been looking for some Buffalo Bore 357. My 686 357 is the strongest handgun I own.

However, this is all just something to give a a false since of security. From all of the reading I have been doing lately about bears and protection, handguns are just going to piss them off. Sure it may help once the bear is on top of you, because that is where he will end up.

All in all I guess it's better than nothing.

Steve Rinella was on Joe Rogans podcast talking about an encounter he had with a grizzly. Him and a buddy came up out of some brush and were almost face to face with one. He gave the impression that he would have been dead if the bear had the inclination. He said they had bear spray and guns, but the best they did was throw their hiking poles at it before it walked off. Sometimes you just freeze when thrown into a situation like that.

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handguns are just going to piss them off

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If youre fast enough and accurate enough you can stop the biggest bear on earth graveyard dead with a .357 mag and Hardcast loads, but the operator is always the weak link.

If I have to go in the woods and know that I'm going to have to stop a griz bent on killing me, I'm going buy a 458 win mag or something.

I think for the most part if a grizzly wants you hes going to get you. I think two legged predators are a bigger threat anyway no matter where you are. I know of a few people whove been robbed at gunpoint on public land.

I carry my Blackhawk (assuming I dont have a rifle) in a chest holster under my bino harness. I can shoot it pretty well and pretty fast. I mainly like it when I'm in my tent at night near the truck.

Nothing I don't already have, Col Trautman taught John Rambo that the mind is the best weapon.

Should be fine, big thing is ammo.

Don’t use frangible or hollow points. You need penetration.

The Judge.