text:  proposition if you shoot if a cougar jumps you and you shoot it it's going to get off your leaf so if you had a 357 magnum revolver that would work let me throw another thought at you though because you're already a semi-auto guy and yes you were right if you shove that 1911 with the safety off shove it against a cougar there's a decent chance it's going to go out of battery the slide's going to slide backwards just ever so slightly and the gun won't go off um