A friend of mine had a 4-gauge shotgun with a 100-gram ammo capacity for just such a situation. It's dangerous to shoot without a tripod; the recoil can break your collarbone, but against a bear, anything else is useless... After that, are you going to rely on pepper spray? :)
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