I sometimes carry a little scadnium S&W 22 mag 7 shot 2" barrel. I try to get my wife to take it when she walks with our kids and dog and the neighbors pit bulls are running loose. She rarely carries it even after one of the neighbors dogs took our dog down by throat right in front of our kids.
I finished off a coyote with the little 22 mag in the field across from our house before they started building homes there. A hear shot with the speer gold dot load did the trick.
In my limited testing the speer gold dot is the best short barrel 22 mag load. I couldn't get the Hornady ftx to really expand from the 2" barrel. Which is too bad because I've got about 1500 Hornady 45g ftx rounds. I might just sell them and replace them with the speer. A local store still has a few cases of the speer load but they are $15/50. Not a bad price in today's market but I used to get them for $11.
Bb
