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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
The thing is, if you are just walking or camping, a handgun is a lot more easy to carry than a rifle. I've read people here say a Desert E can kill someone through a wall... if a bullet can go through a masonary and still kill, I recokin it can penetrate the skull of a bear!
Plus I think the a Desert E is semi auto, so it would be a lot easier to fire off a few shots at the thing than if you had a rifle.
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Adam,
A few friendly corrections.
Most guns can kill someone through a wall, when you can specify what kind of wall you are talking about.
If you are talking about a .50AE round, I don't know the penetrating characteristics offhand, but there are several factors that might make it more able to penetrate a concrete wall vs a bear skull (frangibility immediately comes to mind as one factor).
Secondly, a lot of rifles are semiautomatic while a lot of revolvers are double action (i.e. no separate cocking motion needed...just pull the trigger).
That being said, the unreliability of the DE would be my major concern. With a pissed off, wounded bear, you won't have a chance to un-jam your DE, while I get a second shot off with my .44 mag.
So there are really two factors that have to be considered here: the ammunition used (construction, muzzle energy, penetrating characteristics, etc.) and the gun used (reliability, ease of use under extreme pressure, ability to quickly aim and fire, etc.)
All things considered, I can see a short barreled semi-auto shot gun firing slugs as probably being the best option (maybe alternating with 00 shot). After that, I would probably go with a S&W 500 or a .44 mag long barreled revolver.
In all cases, I would stay away from a DE because of the spotty reliability. There's too much at risk if your particular gun happens to jam because it didn't like a particular bullet you were feeding it.