Posted on 07/17/2019 5:45:30 AM PDT by w1n1
I guess having different opinions is what makes discussions of guns interesting.
I particularly like .22 auto or revolvers with barrels between 4 and 6 inches. There has been a huge number of really great ones made. Many no longer.
The better quality ones are about as accurate as a .22 rifle. The rifle does provide more energy.
It is interesting how different animals react to the .22. Daddy used to kill hogs with a Remington model 513 using .22 shorts. I knew a guy who had a small packing house in Garden City, KS who used an old Marlin model 60 with a cut down stock to kill steers etc.
I once shot a medium sized coon twice in the thorax, both good shots, with a .45 auto. He fell out of the tree but fought the dog for several minutes before dying.
My first whitetail succumbed to a single 9mm HP from a Glock 17L. It had the long slide and cutouts but the barrel was solid.
All in all tho very few things beat a .22LR pistol.
The bad news is that if you get between a bear and cubs, they don’t give you a wide berth
I have personally shot whitetails past 100 yards with a 45 ACP, the same Ed Brown gun I won a bunch of bowling pin matches with.
No, there are tons of people that can kill at 100 with a .45 1911, maybe you’re not that guy. No perhaps and no carbine, I’ve shot against lots of them.
The Forest Service used to issue their people a 375 H&H Magnum. Sounds a bit SMALL to me, but I sure wouldn’t choose anything smaller!
Unfamiliar with an Ed Brown gun. Is that a pistol or a carbine? A 100 yard shot with a pistol is way out of my league. A 100 yard shot with a carbine calibered in 45 ACP I could do.
I don’t know a lot about Ed Brown guns other than what I have read. I think he is from Illinois and makes expensive and highly regarded .45 autos.
45 acp at 25 yds will drop 6”.
Up close and personal it is hard to beat.
45 acp only has a muzzle velocity of 850 fps in a pistol.
you may top 1000 fps in a carbine.
I like carbines, but not for 100 yd shots on bears.
Not for bears, in either one IMO.
modified 1911 Colt Series 70. I’ve shot quite a bit of game with a pistol past 100 yards, but I shoot a lot, still about 100 pistol rounds a week.
I stopped reading when the author suggested a trip to England to buy a shotgun.
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