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I wouldn't say they bite, exactly, but the older short tang type could certainly beat up the web of your hand enough to make shooting unpleasant after a few magazines full. Nothing a real man would notice, of course, but then real men shoot 454's don't they?

In reading the reports of people who have been attacked by bears and lived to talk about it, one thing keeps popping up: "He was on me before I had time to react." Often hunters carrying powerful rifles for elk hunting never manage to get a shot off before the bear is on them. On man...

You can find single shot rifles and shotguns, Rossi, Harrington and Richardson, in that price range, also pump shotguns with smoothbore barrels and rifle sights meant for deer slugs sell pretty cheap used, hunters want the rifled barrels now. Military rifles that have been sporterized cheaply...

A hit with a .22 beats a miss with a .45, and the fact is that for the civilian who rarely if ever practices, his chance of scoring one or several hits with a .22 rifle is a lot higher than with a large caliber handgun. Sure, I have a 12 gauge as my go-to HD gun, but I wouldn't sneer at a .22...

Amazing to me anyhow, what some people (collectors) will pay for odd guns. I was just checking a used gun site, (Yankee Artifacts), where they had two BAR hunting rifles with scopes, one 30-06, one 300 mag; asking about $650 each, for what I'd consider pretty desirable rifles. Next a Spanish...

One of the things that makes the 1911 so popular is all the history behind it. Like the Colt Peacemaker, it is a uniquely American design, served in several wars, and recalls the "good old days." Many gun buyers are looking for ambience more than utility-few of us will ever be in a gun...

Buy or borrow a single barrel 12 gauge, as light weight as possible, with a hard buttplate. Get some Winchester Supreme slugs and find a place to shoot where you can rest the back of your shoulder firmly against a big tree. Fire off a dozen of these slugs. Check what your shoulder looks like...

The question of two long guns versus one with adapter.......it could be an advantage or a disadvantage. With a separate .22, both guns are immediately available. Maybe you have a companion to carry the 2nd gun. A cheap Marlin model 60 would be a lot more useful in a defensive situation. But...

For 89.95 or a few dollars more I could buy a .22 rifle that I could actually hit something with.

Two problems: A bolt gun is a little slower on repeat shots...not that much, but in a sudden attack situation, it could be important. The price. Not saying it's out of line, but the people who co-exist with big bears don't earn their money as easy as hedge fund managers and $1760 might be...

I guess you could use a 50 BMG for prairie dogs if you can afford it. It's just that magnums usually cost more to shoot, kick more and make more noise. You may in some places annoy neighbors more shooting a 300 magnum than you would with a 30-30. You can kill a deer as dead as it needs to be...

I think one mistake that the pro-gun side of the argument tends to make is to see every-thing in black or white, with no shades of grey. They speak of the law-abiding citizen versus the criminal, as if there were only these two catagories out there. Actually, there is a whole bunch of people...

One other question that comes to mind, for those instances when one is not purposely hunting said bear, but only using a gun in a defensive role, is this: How close does the bear have to be before you are legally or morally justified in shooting it? Bears can move very quickly, as the man...

I have personally seen two large bulls shot with 12 gauge birdshot, one was belligerent and approaching at a trot with his nose out. He had already butted one man thru a barbed wire fence. An ounce and a quarter of no 5's at about 15 yards turned him around and sent him back the way he came...

Fatcat4620 hit the bullseye. I'm too old, and don't I lnow it. That's why I look at the guns more than shoot them. There are some compensations....The 18 year old cuties look as good as they ever did, and now the fifty somethings are beginning to look pretty good too. And they don't need any...

It seems to me that the manufacturers of firearms are making a deliberate effort to produce as ugly and crude-looking products as it is possible to make. Looking at the new SR-22 from Ruger got me started on this rant, but Walthers are at least as bad. They think they have to cut notches in...

Quoting statistics on the frequency of lightning strikes or bee sting deaths or falling trees versus bear attacks is totally useless and misleading. Comparatively few people go anywhere near the bears for any length of time, but we all live where there are bees and thunderstorms. Very few...

The great thing about the Alaskan 454 is that you don't need to be a good shot. Even if you miss, the muzzle blast will leave everything in front of it blind, deaf, and shell shocked. Now if they would only chamber one of the .50 BMG.....

I would suggest that you search the used gun market, local or internet, and find a good used Stevens mdl 94. Made back in the day when they still used walnut for the stocks and polished the steel. I f you prefer the hammerless action with a safety instead of the visible hammer, then the Savage...

M1 carbines are light and handy, pretty good for what they were designed for, which is shooting people, and fairly expensive, compared to say a defense-type shotgun. Where you live and what you envision using the gun for would effect the decision whether it was a good choice. If you are...