Outdoor Life

I do know that the parts of Norway where the law requires you to carry some kind of bear defense (for polar bears) a firearm has to be a high powered rifle or 12 gauge shotgun. That eliminates all handguns and AR-15s (anything that uses that round). When I was a kid, a friend's sister did successfully defend herself against a grizzly with a .22 revolver (this was a couple of decades before bear spray) by getting in a fetal position and putting the barrel in the bear's mouth.