I feel he did just fine. I live in Alaska and you can be attached by a brown bear in downtown Los Anchorage but you don't need a 500S&W in a chest holster to walk around. I would think that more grizz in Alaska have been DLP with pistols of 357/45colt or less than the more modern big bores. The last recent ones I know of were with 45acp, 9mm and 10mm and all bears died no one hurt.Mr Shoemaker can share my fire any time.