Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns For those considering deer hunting with a handgun....

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http://www.alloutdoor.com/2014/10/0...10-11&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter

meh.
Opinion piece with little thought given if he considers a .45LC marginal. With modern ammo it's nipping the heals of the Casull.

I agree with the first comment. Too much thought given of equipment vs. skill, technique, etc.

Here we go again using energy as the deciding factor for killing a deer. While the 357 will work (I've done it) its really on the minimum side for deer, but again it will work. Moving up to the big three, 41, 44 & 45 they are easily able to take deer with quality hits & will almost always exit if using good ammo. Don't look for the "knock down" effect of riles, you won't usually see it, but the sixgun is deadly in the hands of good shooters. You need placement & penetration & you can punch your tag! If you need more horsepowder you can move up to the 454, 460 or the mighty 500, along with additional recoil. Shoot what you can handle & the sixgun is a great hunting weapon.

Dick

Someone here always makes the comment "bullets matter more than headstamps" and in the case of handguns its even more so.

Saw no mention of bullets....

well lets see, i have seen brain pearce, who i respect and trust his judgement say in print several times he has wacked and elk with a .44special and had the bullet penetrate clear through.
as to the .45colt being marginal, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
I did look up his background, kind of in a different area.

last tuesday i was up in deer hunt unit, and had two does about 30yards from me standing broadside. We can't shoot does here, but it wouldn't of been an issue with the underpowered 10mm glock i had setting next to me. Phooh!

Prezactly, Ron.

I don't agree with much of this article. It seems to me the author has a poor grasp on handgun hunting and what it requires to kill an animal as it certainly isn't muzzle energy. I guess everyone who wants to hunt deer with a handgun should run out and buy a .500 Smith......good grief.

Makes you wonder exactly what was the author's objective. Selling 500 S&W's, or something else?

That author is almost as stupid as you.

Almost.



Travis

You gotta wonder where they find these dumb fuggs?



Travis

TRH can't be everywhere. There are apparently more of them than first believed.

Field and Stream.

Longest shot I ever took with a handgun on deer was about 73 paces, 45 Colt with a 250 grain SWC went clean through. The Deer went about 20' before it was out of blood.

That idiot who wrote the article doesn't get out of town much, maybe he writes more than he does. Perhaps he does not understand all he knows

It appears it was just to put some words on paper for money, since little of what was stated is factual

I shot a smaller mule deer buck at around 40 yards with a Sig 226 .40 with some hot handloads. He was dead in about 75-80 yards.

I guess some people still cling the thought that it takes 1000 ft-lbs or so to kill a deer, which is laughable. I really think many still think along those lines because too many bypass perfectly good options to buy the latest and greatest hand cannon to go kill something they could kill just as dead with any service caliber handgun.

Anyone that attempts to rate lethality with "foot pounds of energy" does not know what they are talking about and have zero credibility.

An article without substance. Makes it hard to agree or disagree ... or learn anything from.

Tom

Agree 100% with this.