Anyone use a hunting pistol.

My sisters gave me a 4 5/8 Blackhawk in 45 Colt for high school graduation. A few years later I killed a small buck with it in Hancock County on opening morning of gun season. I was in an old home made stand on a fence row. This meager spike came through the woods and I thought it was a doe so never took the rifle down from the nail it was hanging on. When the deer was just a few yards away I could see his tiny spikes. The 45 slid from its holster and he stopped when he heard the hammer chocolate chip cookie. At the shot he mule kicked and ran about ten yards before piling into a heap. Much later in the season I found the perfectly mushroomed 225 grain silvertip laying on top of the moss near to where he died. The bullet had passed through and must have just hit the moss bed without the power to burrow into it. I still have that bullet among others recovered from deer these past 4 decades.

I have killed deer and hogs with a Ruger Red Hawk.

I have killed 2 doe with my 686 .357 and 7 inch barrel. I like it.

Snake said:

Exactly.

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No!!!! Not even close to exactly!!! Both of you, are showing your ignorance!!! Pigs are much tougher than deer!!! If you would use it on a pig, why wouldn't you use it on a deer

lopsideddirt said:

No!!!! Not even close to exactly!!! Both of you, are showing your ignorance!!! Pigs are much tougher than deer!!! If you would use it on a pig, why wouldn't you use it on a deer

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I don't hunt pigs but if he said he killed a pig with his pistol I believe him . I think the 41 magnum is plenty effective but i dont own one . Alot I know just let their dogs catch them and stick them with a large knife or shoot them with a .22 in the head . Pigs are a nuisance where as are a deer .......

I killed several huge boar with my pistol, but it's a pistol made for elk, so...

22mag behind the ear hole …..legs up dead pig i don't care how big it is

Chickenrig said:

22mag behind the ear hole …..legs up dead pig i don't care how big it is

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There's an even better method than behind the ear that an old farmer taught me. If a hog is facing you imagine an x tunning from ear down across to the opposite eye. Where the lines cross halfway between that point and the outer edge of their head on both sides is a soft spot that even on a big hog can be penetrated with a 22lr. I watched that old farmer drop his pissed off old breeder boar with one shot!!! Darn thing didn't even squeal..... It was just immediate lights out, and it didn't even hardly have the death nerves at all!!! That boat was pushing 700lbs. He was getting old.

Snake said:

I don't hunt pigs but if he said he killed a pig with his pistol I believe him . I think the 41 magnum is plenty effective but i dont own one . Alot I know just let their dogs catch them and stick them with a large knife or shoot them with a .22 in the head . Pigs are a nuisance where as are a deer .......

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But if you'll take a body shot on a pig it'll also work on a deer. As long as it's legal to use. The guy you first quoted was claiming that a 44 mag or 45 colt is minimal ballistics for deer, when they are very effective on deer within their range!!! They sure aren't minimal though. The load I'm using this year is an Underwood 44 mag 240gr xtp that's rated at 1500fps. Out of my 7.5 inch Ruger Redhawk 44 mag it actually does better than box rated velocity by about 50fps!!! As far as I can reliably place the shot which is about 120 yards, this load will easily kill deer!!!

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But if you'll take a body shot on a pig it'll also work on a deer. As long as it's legal to use. The guy you first quoted was claiming that a 44 mag or 45 colt is minimal ballistics for deer, when they are very effective on deer within their range!!! They sure aren't minimal though. The load I'm using this year is an Underwood 44 mag 240gr xtp that's rated at 1500fps. Out of my 7.5 inch Ruger Redhawk 44 mag it actually does better than box rated velocity by about 50fps!!! As far as I can reliably place the shot which is about 120 yards, this load will easily kill deer!!!

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Your showing your ignorance because of what I said or quoted related to hogs . He was saying more or less he wouldn't take a chance on a deer of a lifetime with any of his pistols . And quoted him by saying " Exactly ". Losing a pig compared to losing a deer/buck of a lifetime has no comparison IMO . Now if a man is going to hunt something I think if he fires upon it if should be with what he thinks is a killing shot . My quote really had nothing to do with the gun ....ok .

Seen a buddy shoot a 130lb hog at the feeder at point blank range , took 30 minutes to run it down in the pasture to finish it off, through the ear for me if I have a choice

mike243 said:

Seen a buddy shoot a 130lb hog at the feeder at point blank range , took 30 minutes to run it down in the pasture to finish it off, through the ear for me if I have a choice

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I was hunting wild hog in Florida, and took a shot right behind the ear on a big boar (around 400 lbs). I was using my 357 Herrett Contender. Put a hole in that pig's head you could put your fist into. However, I was using a soft 170 grn bullet I use on deer. The bullet exploded on that boar's skull and did not penetrate. Knocked the pig cold, but when a cousin walked up to it the boar woke up, and he was pissed! Chased my cousin all over the swamp until he could get up a tree! Last time I used a deer load on a wild boar.

Killed 1 through the ear with my muzzleloader up north creek in Tellico plains, killed a bigger 1 next door with 22 mag, neither went no where, but like I said in the ear hole not behind not in front.

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Killed 1 through the ear with my muzzleloader up north creek in Tellico plains, killed a bigger 1 next door with 22 mag, neither went no where, but like I said in the ear hole not behind not in front.

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Not saying it doesn't work, just saying what works better on big hogs. I've raised and sold thousands of pigs and killed north of a hundred if not closer to 200 wild ones and worked for a wild game processor in East Texas. Butchered thousands of hogs if you count both wild and domestic in all sizes up to 800lbs if you count the big old breeder boars. The old farmer that taught me how to do it shot a big aggressive sow that had become mean and she was 649lbs on the hoof. Dropped her and she was absolutely still with no death wiggle with 1 shot from a 22LR just like I explained earlier.

If they are sideways do the ear, if they are facing you do it like I wrote. Makes more opportunities to be successful. Sometimes they don't sit still long enough sideways for you to nail the ear shot. Hogs move a lot.

lopsideddirt said:

If they are sideways do the ear, if they are facing you do it like I wrote. Makes more opportunities to be successful. Sometimes they don't sit still long enough sideways for you to nail the ear shot. Hogs move a lot.

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Especialy when they are in a trap and wanting to get away from you !!!! Gotta be quick on the trigger. Another thing is you see folks looking thru a scope to shoot 10'. I just laugh

Well seeing as neither was facing me and a 50y shot or so I took what seemed to be the best shot, can't corral them all lol

mike243 said:

Some folks use a short barreled rifle that identifies as a pistol

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They do!!! Lol

I've killed 3 with my Security Six .357, and 158 gr. JHP handloads.