10 mm Glock Bear Medicine

bear. Colleen had shot from the top of a large tree with her 338 GNR. The bear was looking down at her and the bullet went thru his left front leg and up into the bottom of his jaw. It ended up in the roof of his mouth. When he fell he came straight down, not grabbing at branches and usually that means he is dead on arrival. When he hit the ground I walked over to him parted the hair with my revolver barrel and turned to tell Colleen she had a really weird colored cinnamon bear. I saw her eyes get wide and turned and the bear was up on his hind legs about 2 feet in front of me, thankfully still groggy. I put the 41 GNR Redhawk in his chest and pulled the trigger until it went click click. With the bear dead I turned to Colleen. Her comment was "thanks a lot, 6 more holes in the hide". The guide said the bear was right at 300 lbs.
We have him full mounted in our living room. A real nice cinnamon bear but the underlying hair is light grey, which I thought unusual.

Not BIG 9 ft. Grizz but most situations I'd figure. In truth whatever you got in hand is better than a sharp stick. IF it goes BANG!

Mine is my own Frankenstein. A barrel/mag swap and it is a 10mm 15-shot (again). I did lots of work with .45 Super and got a 200 gr. bullet (cast gas check) to 1400 fps. Then I worked with the 10mm and 200 gr. FNGC, guess what? It ran 1400 fps too with a published load I used (6" barrel). That's generally 100 fps more than the heavy factory jacketed loads available (lead is more slippery). BUT it has two more rounds and better sectional density. A toe to toe comparison would be interesting on penetration depth. With special tuning and moderation with the real hefty loads it would do.

Pic is shown with some Naugle loads.