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Post by redhawk1 on Nov 5, 2007 6:27:14 GMT -5
How many Handgun hunters do we have here?
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Post by mike3132 on Nov 5, 2007 14:58:58 GMT -5
Me, Ive got two. A Ruger Super Redhawk 454 Casull and a stainless 516 Savage Striker .243, 30-06, .308 and .260 Rem. Im in the market for a 7-08 barrel for the Striker. mike
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Post by whyohe on Nov 6, 2007 11:17:17 GMT -5
id love to get one with my revolver!!! it comes with me during rifle season.
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Post by redhawk1 on Nov 6, 2007 15:18:14 GMT -5
I have quit a few handguns for hunting.
S&W 460 Mag PC 7.5 inch barrel and a Bushnell 2X6X32 scope
BFR in 500 Mag with an Ultra dot Match dot sight on it. It has been customized by Mag-na-port.
I also have a BFR in 45-70 with an Ultra dot Match dot sight on it.
I carry my Ruger Blackhawk in 45 Colt and my back up guns are a S&W 500 Mag 4 inch and a custom Ruger Super Redhawk in 454 Casull with a 2 1/2 inch barrel.
I have taken a lot of deer and boar and black bear with my handguns.
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Post by briar on Nov 24, 2007 0:33:55 GMT -5
i have two t/c contenders with several barrels. my 30/30 is very accurate at 100 yards it is a 14'' with a 2x7x32.
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Post by goldwinginggunner on Nov 25, 2007 19:30:58 GMT -5
My first year for handgun hunting. My season will begin 11/29 and I will have my 10 ML-II for longer shots and my S&W 460 Mag for everything else. I am using the Federal 275 gr. Barnes 460 S&W. I have less than 2" groups @ 50 yrds. from a Steady Point rest. I feel good with the S&W XVR out to 50 yrds but I think it could be good much farther than 50... I just don't have the confidence to shoot longer.
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Post by illinihunter on Nov 29, 2007 23:34:46 GMT -5
I really do love handgun hunting. I only have one revolver ,so far, for this purpose which is a somewhat modified Super Redhawk .44 Magnum. I have taken over a dozen deer with it and it will never leave my gun collection. I do have the .460 on my wish list and will probably be my next gun purchase.
I set the handgun aside for our first season to try out the new savage 10ML. I think the redhawk will have to come back out at least once this coming weekend.
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Post by youp50 on Dec 6, 2007 7:47:54 GMT -5
I am heading there soon. I believe I want a 41 mag. My wrists have been rebuilt and I don't want to beat them anymore than necessary. I believe I will get a coveted Wisconsin bear tag this year, for sure next. I go with friends that hound hunt and when the bears are in the corn it is really something. Three to five hundred pounders walking and fighting hounds in a cornfield. I plan on my 10ML if we tree it and a 41 if we don't.
I am still uncertain as to Red or Blackhawk or S&W.
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Post by ren on Dec 29, 2007 2:41:24 GMT -5
My babies, Lone Eagle 35 Rem 4x Leopold blue, Ruger Red Hawk 44 mag 7.5bbl SS 2x Leopold, Ruger Black Hawk 45 LC/45ACP 7.5bbl blue, Ruger Blackhawk 45 LC 4.5bbl blue.
The Lone Eagle made meat last year for the first time, the others wait.
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Post by encoreguy on Jan 24, 2008 22:40:21 GMT -5
7-08 Encore of course! ;D
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Post by redneckrob on Jan 28, 2008 18:42:01 GMT -5
used to have a super redhawk 44 mag. 9 1/2 in. barrel ss with simmons ss glass shooting federal hydrashocks. used it to kill several deer and 1 nice buck at 112 yards give or take. fell on some hard times one year when laid off for the winter and had to sell it. now i will be getting another one soon except maybe this one in 454.
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Post by deadeye on Jan 31, 2008 21:40:45 GMT -5
y,longest handgun kill,330yds/striker-.308 w150nosler b-tip, definetly a challenge!
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Post by hossdaniels on Feb 4, 2008 19:24:19 GMT -5
330 yards HOLY $@#*! I got a smith 629pc lighthunter .44 last year, its 2 out of 3 so far(my bad). I got a few with the gp100 .357 before I got that one, had to move up for lack of a consistent, bleeding exit wound. I hate losing deer. I figured out that I do better at ranges 60 yds or less.
330 yds HOLY $#!^ deadeye's handle is right.
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Post by edge on Feb 4, 2008 19:30:34 GMT -5
XP-100 7mm-08
Only used it once while hunting, but it did the job.
edge.
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Post by redhawk1 on Feb 5, 2008 23:03:51 GMT -5
edge, how do you like that XP-100? I just picked up an LAR Grizzly in 45 Win Mag, what a blast to shoot.
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Post by Clumbsum on Feb 17, 2008 12:47:04 GMT -5
I used a scoped super blackhawk in 44 mag during the muzzle loading season here in Iowa. I took several deer, but I was only comfortable shooting out to seventy yards or so. I purchased a Savage MLII to extend my comfort range. Since owning the Savage I havn't used the handgun for deer since.
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Post by redneckrob on Feb 25, 2008 20:42:21 GMT -5
[I used a scoped super blackhawk in 44 mag during the muzzle loading season here in Iowa
you can hunt with a centerfire pistol during ml season?
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Post by Clumbsum on Feb 26, 2008 17:53:19 GMT -5
Yes in Iowa you can use a handgun for any firearm season. no centerfire rifles allowed
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Post by goldwinginggunner on Mar 27, 2008 13:50:05 GMT -5
I have yet to make a kill with my S&W 460 but it is with me throughout the gun season. I want to try for Elk in the future. I feel confident out to about 100 yrds. I have a 2X Luepold handgun scope. I still feel best with my 10MLII. I use the hand gun for less than twenty-five yards.
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Post by illinihunter on Mar 29, 2008 6:40:04 GMT -5
GWG, I have to admit that after trying out the 10MLII that the knockdown power is hard to beat and is a big confidence builder. There is still something special about using the handgun though. I think I will try for a wild boar in the near future with the .44 or maybe the.460 (if I ever get one picked up). How is yours to shoot? I have never had the opportunity to try one out. Maybe you could show up at the Savage shoot next month in Indiana and let me send a few downrange (hint,hint).
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Post by thelefthand on Apr 15, 2008 21:29:14 GMT -5
I have an Encore 7-08, and a Contender with a 10" VVCG 44mag barrel. I've taken deer with both of them, and they do a nice job. Longest shot was 185yds off hand with the Encore. Nice 10pt buck that someone else had already wounded. Basically they had shot him in the front knee. I thought he was going to walk right too me, so I laid the 7-08 down and picked up a 44 mag revolver. Then he turned and walked out across the middle of the field and stopped. I couldn't get a clean shot by leaning on something, so I took a couple of deep breaths and took the shot off hand. Needless to say I did a LOT more shooting back in those days.
Since I got my 10ML-II the Encore stays in the safe a lot, and the 44 goes along as a spare.
Mark
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Post by youp50 on Apr 25, 2008 5:56:08 GMT -5
Just picked up a Redhawk SS 41 mag. 2x Leupold and 270 rounds of factory ammo. Hogue aftermarket grips. Set me back $350. I expect I will carry it bear hunting in Michigan this year and a trip or two to the deer blind in November. I like the wheel gun idea when bear hunting... it will leave ME the last round if things go bad.  |
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Apr 25, 2008 18:12:44 GMT -5
Set you back? Sounds like a freakin good deal to me. ;D
About that last round...if he's that close and chewin' on your leg, give it to HIM.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 28, 2008 16:16:13 GMT -5
Wil,
Yea, I kind of think it was a good deal, too. I should have acted sooner, he also had a 44 Blackhawk for 250. I did have a bear trying to chew on my leg at one time. He only got a couple of little hole in.
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Post by richard on May 22, 2008 14:36:42 GMT -5
I have Four XP-100's.....7/08. 223 Ackley, 6mmBR and a stock .223. The 22e Ack. and the 6BR are both in McMillan rear grip stocks with 2 oz. triggers. The 7/08 is in a center grip Fajen with a Hart fluted barrel. That one took an antelope at 156 lasered yards. The others have killed groundhogs and PD out in the 300+ yard range. The .223 is in its original plastic stock and was just bought for the action to build something more exotic ;D I also have a Thompson Contender with a custom Hart barrel in 7.62 x 39 which took an antelope at 220 yards. My wheel guns include a Old Ruger Blackhawk in 44 mag. (took several whitetails with it) a Tarus Raging Bull .454 Cassul (took a hog with it) and a couple of .357 colt Pythons which took whitetails. The 6BR and the .223 Ack. where smithed by myself and the 7/08 I bought at a gun show and it was built by Walley Hart up in PA. (brother of the Hart rifle barrel guy) Walley is the gunsmith and his brother makes barrels)
Carlos Hathcock had rifles barreled by Walley Hart.
Richard
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Post by mshm99 on Oct 15, 2008 18:52:28 GMT -5
Contender, 357/44 Baines Davis,12" Bulberry Barrel, 150 Grain .358 Pointy Rem (that I can't find any more of, but still have 175),Luepold 2X, Chrono at 2150. Carry with me in the back pack for stand hunting and back up for the MLII and the now defunct Illinois handgun season. Had it since 1995. Like an old friend. Longest kill 170 yds.
mshm
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Post by CraigF on Oct 20, 2008 22:13:03 GMT -5
Last year (07) was the first year I carried a handgun, nothing close enough though. I will try again this year. I use a Kimber 1911 that is more accurate than I am. I only use it in Texas though, accourding to the Texas DNR anything other than rimfire is allowed.
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Post by ohiostate on Dec 21, 2008 11:50:34 GMT -5
got a t.c encore in 44mag killed a hog with it 4-5 years ago THANKS WORM
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Post by joe21a on Jan 5, 2009 10:25:39 GMT -5
I have a Ruger Blackhawk that I had chambered into the 357/44 magnum. It is a lot like the Bains/davis but will work in a wheel gun with out jamming. I also have taken some with my 357 mag. DW 8" barrel, but prefer the Ruger as it has a scope and I can reach out much further.
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