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Whichever one you want to carry - the lightest & smallest one, I'd assume. The most common threat out there is still people, not critters. It may be that 357 would be considered a hunting legal caliber in some of those states, which might be an advantage of that particular pistol. I'm not versed enough in state hunting regs to guess which.
^^^this...look at the statistics of bear or moose attacks in new england or the area where you're going to be walking in the woods...humans are more dangerous...carry whatever is legal, has the most capacity, you're comfotable with and is not too heavy to lug around
Informative thread.
Where lawful to do so, I think the variety of available shells makes the Taurus Judge (pick your flavor) a winner.
It's a great snake gun, and in short range encounters, you're not likely to miss!
This!Glock 20 alternating hard casts and uncle teds hollow points. 15+1 of 10mm anything u hit with 16 of those and keeps coming at is a frigging dinosaur and you'd need a howitzer to kill anyway. Around here anyways for those big brownies I'd take a s&w 500
A friend of mine has a govenor. We were camping last fall he was bragging how awesome it was; he shot a tree at about 8 yards the pellets barely penetrated and were spread about 16" and the two discs were about an inch into the tree. I shot it with a regular 45 and couldn't find the bullet.Watch Hickok45's video on these (I forget if it's the Judge or the Governor, but they're essentially the same). The shot pattern opens WAY up at ranges beyond carjacking distance. His video cured my craving for one. I can't find you a link because YouTube is blocked at work.
As for having to fend off animals I'd go with more rounds since you're more likely to need to scare them off then shoot them. And if you have to shoot them, I'd rather be able to miss more.
I forget who it was but someone on YouTube did a nice review of them basically they are only effective snake guns. The 45 acp and 45 lc grossly under penetrated out of the barrel. And .410 slugs were too weak too. He said just buy the cci 45 snake round s and save 800 bucksA friend of mine has a govenor. We were camping last fall he was bragging how awesome it was; he shot a tree at about 8 yards the pellets barely penetrated and were spread about 16" and the two discs were about an inch into the tree. I shot it with a regular 45 and couldn't find the bullet.
Long slide G20 with a whole bunch of hard cast lead sitting on top of a whole bunch of 800-X. 15rd mags, cuz this is 'Murica.