Crossing Into Canada with a Firearm
Hi everyone: We are in the deep planning stages for a journey to Alaska, sometime in 2016. We plan to bring along a couple of firearms - a 9MM handgun and 12g shotgun. We have read, pretty much...
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"The articles you cite were clearly composed by anti-gun authors with an agenda. They lack real data."
Now you are just being funny, aren't you??
Years ago there was a study published by ADF&G using various rifles, handguns and shotguns and real bear skulls. Now skulls attached to a post are more fragile than a skull attached to a shock absorbing bear neck, but it was a great test. The Anchorage newspaper and Alaska hunting magazines carried it. What I remember is that high powered rifles were best, of course, then the 12 gauge with slugs, handguns came last. In none of the cases did the 12 gauge penetrate the skull, but 7 or 8 times out of 10 it crushed the skull...in the instances when it hit just left or right of the central ridge. When it did hit the ridge it just kind of slid off to the side without crushing the skull...so a 12 gauge is marginal, which is why I said that another 200 foot pounds is important.
I can tell your mind is made up though. I'm sure you've faced more bears than I have.
Now you are just being funny, aren't you??
Years ago there was a study published by ADF&G using various rifles, handguns and shotguns and real bear skulls. Now skulls attached to a post are more fragile than a skull attached to a shock absorbing bear neck, but it was a great test. The Anchorage newspaper and Alaska hunting magazines carried it. What I remember is that high powered rifles were best, of course, then the 12 gauge with slugs, handguns came last. In none of the cases did the 12 gauge penetrate the skull, but 7 or 8 times out of 10 it crushed the skull...in the instances when it hit just left or right of the central ridge. When it did hit the ridge it just kind of slid off to the side without crushing the skull...so a 12 gauge is marginal, which is why I said that another 200 foot pounds is important.
I can tell your mind is made up though. I'm sure you've faced more bears than I have.
