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Originally Posted by billybek

A hunter was mauled by a grizzly west of Calgary in late October of this year.
They don't really care if you have a rifle. Some have been conditioned to hearing a rifle shot and come in to clean up the gut pile or claim the kill for their own.
Usually one or more hunters in the province has a run in with a bear during hunting season resulting in injuries or on occasion death.

I'm guessing that for bear, you need big, heavy, fast bullets, and even then, unless you get a good shot placement, or you shoot them when they are still ¼ mile away, they may still get to you.

But I'm not a hunter and have never shot a big critter. Jeff's more of an expert on that kind of stuff than me.