WB
Great story! Getting potted in a brawl is a real concern.
Tuesday, November 05, 2024, 12:10

I've seen videos of Lion attacks, Leopards, it's all ass grabbing, fetching, hi-stepping, and shooting! Like Jerry Clower's story, "shoot amoungst us, one of us needs some relief!"

I saw where a PH got shot by a client with a .458! You'd think it would have blow him apart but it was just a bad flesh wound, very lucky.

Blake Naugle built up and messed with a Super .45 1911 a few year's back and I tried to follow in his steps but working in a different light. I used the Glock G21 chassis. The rubbery frame is very forgiving up to a point, obviously. Special normal rifled barrel, custom chamber, throating, expansion brakes and recoil springs. I was able to get the 230 gr. "cast bullet" (100 fps faster than jacketed at the same pressure) to 1300 fps from a 6" barrel. As a sidenote, on the same platform with very careful "cast gas check" handloads from a conventional rifled 6" barrel I also worked a 230 gr. 10mm load to 1300 fps. It duplicates some specialized Underwood 10mm ammo. I used Longshot and AA#7 powders to work hot loads. In an auto special care for chamber support is also paramount. You can't mess with the feed ramp as it also supports the case web.

But a .45 or .400 caliber semi-auto, that is proven to be reliable, with a 13-15 rnd. capacity and punting 200+ gr. hard bullets at 1200+ fps is better than nothing. I prefer a short pump shotgun with slugs, like the game dept. But whatever fills your hand when it hits the fan is fine. George the bear whisperer in AK told me it didn't make much difference semi-auto or revolver as you'd likely only get one good shot, if you were fast and lucky. But I find a double stack mag of magnum .45 very comforting.