I've spent a lotta years hunting with handguns.
Our State minimum is 700 ft/lbs and a 6" barrel, some counties only straight-wall cases I think (and that's for counties that didn't allow handgun hunting back when I was doing only that).
I've used a variety of .22s for small game, and a couple of .44s for larger game. Gravitated across the board from unscoped to scoped. The final .44 revolver is a scoped 7½" Redhawk; the other is a scoped 6" Desert Eagle (that I'm getting ready to offer up...). Never used the single shots like TCs or the Remington; just wasn't personally interested in those, but they have some advantages.
Whitetail ranges have been fairly close; I think the longest was about 75 yards. I was able to get closer to javalina...
-Chris
Last edited by Ranger4444; 10/11/20.
