A .45ACP will tickle a brownie. Then it will shove the gun up your nether regions and eat you. I use cowboy ammo, mostly, as that's what I'm shooting every month. For other stuff, well, a .45-70, a 12 gauge, a 20 gauge, a .45ACP shooting a +P hollow point (Speer Gold Bond) will generally make 'most anything think twice. Any encounters I have will probably in shotgun slug range and a .12 gauge runs .73 caliber, if I remember aright. On the other hand, bear spray is fine as long as you point it at the bear and the wind is away from you -- I mention this because There Have Been Incidents.
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