When bow hunting moose or deer, I used to pack a long blade belt knife as packing handguns is forbidden here.
If legal, I'd have packed my M29 and thought nothing of it.
As far as hunting grizzly or the coastal brown bears - I have no desire with a rifle or bow.

I've guided a couple guys on a moose, wolf and grizzly hunt. They were both wimps and thought killing a grizzly would prove they were men. That was quite distasteful to me.

They both shot moose and wolves and wanted a free hunt the next year because they didn't get to shoot a grizzly, too.

G--- and I one almost under our up-steam tree stand and all the hunter did was sweat heavily and shake, beads of water running down his face and banging his knees together, shaking so badly the trees branches were shaking - LOL - it was hilarious.

He was OK until the bear let out a roar - it had chasing a 2-point bull moose with the moose coming close to one of our anchor trees, then jumped across the stream, crashing off through the bush. The bear stopped, a VERY close bow shot away, let out a roar, splashed across the little steam and charged after the moose. Poor G---, white as a ghost. That was just before dark and we had a good kilometer and 1/2 to walk bush trails back to the camp but had to wait until the moon came out for visibility. I had to coax him out of the tree and as he said - "cover me while I climb down" LOL.

We got back to camp and he'd lost his cap along the way. He told F--- he'd didn't know where it was. Plans were changed and Igor and F--- hunted that stand the next day and there was G---'- hat, right in the middle of the trail, a branch had knocked it off his head and he was too scared to stop and pick it up.

Igor and I had a good chuckle over that event.