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I’m not really a handgun guy but have had 357’s, 41’s, 44’s and a 45. I couldn’t really say which to choose considering either the 44 or the 45. Either will do for cartridge-appropriate game. The 45 RRH I had was tuned by Hamilton Bowen and shot particularly well. Practically, other than more factory 44’s available, it seems to me the differences amount to the differences in the number of angels dancing on a pin.

I’ve posted these pictures before but took both the cow elk and the heifer bison with the 45 Colt and BB 325’s at 1300, as heavy a load as I ever care to shoot. Even in the heavy Redhawk.





I’m back to the 44 again in a S&W 329. I like going after whitetails with a handgun but at this time of life less is more. I’ll use hard cast 240’s or 255’s in the 44 special in this gun.