Pistol Hunting?

[Steve300xcw]

I’ve vowed that I’ll be carrying this S&W 44mag 7.5inch on every hunt this year. Any deer or hog within 100 yards and I use the pistol.

That is not how it normally works. By the time it registers that "I can make that shot with my pistol" You've already killed it with your rifle. You want to kill with that pistol, I'd leave all your other artillery at home.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Practicing with some 44 Special is the plan, just haven’t been able to find any locally. But I think after a few hundred rounds I should at least be good through bow range. Maybe next year we’ll get to 100 yards.

44 is a round that is worth loading for.

 

[Quandary]

Where we go Elk hunting in Colorado it’s very thick timber. For years I carried that 44 mag S&W Hunter for the possible 50 and under shot. Of course the last time we hunted this property I rounded a corner, on an ATV track while walking to a spot I wanted to still hunt, and there were two nice bulls 50 yards in front of me. My rifle was strapped to my pack. Of course after 10 or more years of carrying that 44 and never unholstering it I decided not to take it…… Tried to edge behind some pine trees to unstrap my rifle, got busted and off they went. Only 2 elk any of the 4 of us hunting saw that week.