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  1. HandgunHunter

    A great season

    We use (and most do) rifle scopes on the single shots. It lets you get a tighter position. The single shot in the photo recoils less than 1/2”. Revolvers use long eye relief handgun scopes.
  2. HandgunHunter

    A great season

    Big game season has come to a close for my household. This season success in the field came almost too easy with an animal a day hitting the ground. My main focus this year was getting the wife to accomplish some firsts. She got her first mule deer and first bull. She really wanted a...
  3. HandgunHunter

    Forget caliber and bullet, let’s talk shot placement

    You rifle guys have to track things?
  4. HandgunHunter

    What caliber are you using to get pass through shots on elk

    240 JHP out of a 6.5” 44 magnum has worked to 85 yards
  5. HandgunHunter

    Annual elk rifle thread

    My wife’s elk rifle was a 6.5-284 custom Remington xp100…. 127 Lrx at 2975 fps.
  6. HandgunHunter

    Annual elk rifle thread

    My elk rifle was a 6.5” 629 S&W. Magnaported, hogue big butt grips, trijicon SRO. 240 Sierra at 1350 fps.
  7. HandgunHunter

    Elk .... Let's see them!!!

    The wife tagged out. 200 and 282 yards. 6.5-284 xp100. 127 LRX. Her first bull.
  8. HandgunHunter

    Pack out pics

    2022
  9. HandgunHunter

    Thoughts on no blood trail?

    You didn’t have a blood trail because you didn’t have an exit. Hunting with handgun there are a number of times the bullet has just lodged under the off side skin. When this happens a blood trail has been minimal but they still die. Without an exit there isn’t good flow to leave much of a...
  10. HandgunHunter

    Elk .... Let's see them!!!

    A cow from early season 2022
  11. HandgunHunter

    WY NR 50-50 special/random split...comment now

    I commented against it….Wy resident. I pretty much comment against everything the task force does at this point…
  12. HandgunHunter

    Black hills Whitetail 44mag

    I have used the cutting edge 200 grain fracturing. The 357 140 fracturing and the 210 44 in a 445 supermag.
  13. HandgunHunter

    Black hills Whitetail 44mag

    They don’t even come close to matching the wound channel of a JHP. Until hammer decides to either actually make a HP or start doing the pre cut petals they are basically equivalent to a truncated flat point fmj. Cutting edge pistol bullets at a minimum match the wound channel of a JHP.
  14. HandgunHunter

    Black hills Whitetail 44mag

    I have found going heavy for caliber to gain me nothing. The JHP bullets do better at optimal speed. What I mean by that is a 44 is based around a 240, 357 158, and so on. I reckon if I was going with a solid heavy for caliber may be a way to go. I prefer big wound channels and short tracks...
  15. HandgunHunter

    Black hills Whitetail 44mag

    Any 158 JHP will do it
  16. HandgunHunter

    Black hills Whitetail 44mag

    The gun and projectile will work much farther away than most shooters will. Under 100 yards is a realistically achievable goal for most. I have taken lope and deer to 150 with a 44.
  17. HandgunHunter

    Black hills Whitetail 44mag

    I drove up into the Black Hills of Wyoming the day before my season started and made camp in the bed of the truck. I awoke to a 20 ish degree morning and quickly got ready and headed into the woods at first light. I have hunted this area several times before and I chose this area due to the...
  18. HandgunHunter

    Elk .... Let's see them!!!

    44mag. Wyoming wilderness.
  19. HandgunHunter

    Back country revolver BULL

    Vs starting another thread. 350 yard cow from early this season. Xp100 handgun. 6.5-284
  20. HandgunHunter

    Back country revolver BULL

    There are a lot of days I observe animals.
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