I'm trying to hold off my obsession with a Stainless Marlin .357 lever-action carbine until they make one; help me by answering this ridiculous hypothetical question in the meantime:
The fates have decreed that you are going to come between a Big Mama black bear and her cubs while hunting/hiking/gathering-your-rosebuds-as-you-may; she is going to charge you, and she's not gonna stop so long as she can. You may choose one of two guns to carry ready-to-hand:
1) The carbine mentioned above--10 shots of .357 in something like Corbon's 200 gr. load; open sights of your choice, 16-18.5" barrel.
2) A revolver of your choice in .44 mag or .45 long colt--6 or 8" barrel, your choice; any commercial load you like (some 300 gr. cast something-or-other, I imagine).
You don't know how close she'll be; only that she's mad as he!! at you. Do you go for the control of the carbine, or the bone-crushing mass of the bigger bullet (and greater simplicity of the revolver?)? Thanks for playing!
cw
The fates have decreed that you are going to come between a Big Mama black bear and her cubs while hunting/hiking/gathering-your-rosebuds-as-you-may; she is going to charge you, and she's not gonna stop so long as she can. You may choose one of two guns to carry ready-to-hand:
1) The carbine mentioned above--10 shots of .357 in something like Corbon's 200 gr. load; open sights of your choice, 16-18.5" barrel.
2) A revolver of your choice in .44 mag or .45 long colt--6 or 8" barrel, your choice; any commercial load you like (some 300 gr. cast something-or-other, I imagine).
You don't know how close she'll be; only that she's mad as he!! at you. Do you go for the control of the carbine, or the bone-crushing mass of the bigger bullet (and greater simplicity of the revolver?)? Thanks for playing!
cw