In the ongoing study of how effective handguns are when used as a defense against bears, this correspondent posted an article on AmmoLand showing the distribution of the number of shots fired vs the number of cases. The most common case was one shot fired, with the least common cases having the most shots fired. On examining the data, there is a significant difference noted among bear species.
In cases involving brown bears, grizzly bears, Kodiak bears, (ursus arctos) more shots are fired per case.
There are 109 total handgun-only cases involving Ursus arctos, of which 93 cases had known shot numbers. One case had an indeterminant outcome. There was a single failure. One case was indeterminant because both a handgun and bear spray were used, and it could not be determined which weapon was decisive. READ MORE AT: https://www.ammoland.com/2026/05/handgun-defense-brown-bears-shot-counts/?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=SocialSnap
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