what is your biggest handcannon.
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Topic: what is your biggest handcannon.
Posted By: BEAR
Subject: what is your biggest handcannon.
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 11:05
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Seems for the last 20+ years big handguns have been popular. Mine is a T/C contender in 375 winchester with 12 inch bbl. It throws out a 270 gr Hornady at 1710 fps BC is .380 so it holds its energy much further than most hand guns. More powerful than a 455 Casull at the muzzle. At 200 yards it has the same power as a 44 mag at the muzzle.
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Posted By: Wing master
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 12:45
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I'm a big Smith&Wesson fan. I have several but the biggest is a .357 Mag. I had a model 29, 44Mag for a while but it wasn't fun to shoot. I traded it off for something I would use. Most of my accumulation is K frame S&W's but probably my favorite is a 6 inch K-38 Masterpiece. That is the most fun and accurate handgun I own. Wing master ------------- I have always considered myself to be quite the bullshitter, But ocasionally it is nice to sit back and listen to a true professional......So, Carry on. |
Posted By: Irish Bird Dog
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 13:34
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Best I can come up with is a couple of .44 magnum's.... ------------- Irish Bird Dog NRA Life/Endowment 2nd Amendment Supporter |
Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 13:48
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I could never shoot 1911 or SBH. they just don't fit my hand and under recoil move off target.
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Posted By: MapleHill
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 13:57
| I have a Ruger SRH 44 mag, dad and uncles have several 29/629 Smiths. I have shot a 460 and 500S&W. I have had a hankering for a 454 or 480 ruger to play with. IMO, the 460/500s are way overkill, they are no fun to shoot. In all honesty a 44 is quite the handful. It is probably my favorite to load for and shoot. I have several rifles chambered in 44 as well. A 240gr JHP or hard cast SWC is serious deer medicine in my neck of the woods. 100yd shots are few and far between with somewhere between 30-60yds being the average. I can load it down with 44Sp and make it fun to plink or load it with a stiff charge of 296 (my go-to) and watch the fire fly out the barrel!! |
Posted By: jsgbearpaws1
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 15:09
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50AE DE. More then enough. Still want a 629 classic DX. ------------- ...oh yeah! thats gonna hurt! |
Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 15:54
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I now have caliber envy. My wife says my little 22 is big enough. ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
Posted By: Irish Bird Dog
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 17:05
hey D is she talking handguns or little pisstols?  ------------- Irish Bird Dog NRA Life/Endowment 2nd Amendment Supporter |
d4570 wrote:Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 17:58
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I don't know I'm afraid to ask her... ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 14 April 2020 at 06:13
caliber doesn't matter!
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Posted By: MapleHill
Date Posted: 14 April 2020 at 13:14
It's how well you can handle the weapon...
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Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 14 April 2020 at 14:28
TRUE true 
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Posted By: 788Fan
Date Posted: 15 April 2020 at 09:28
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My big gun are 45LC in a RBHs. I have one with optics and a shortened 6" barrel for hunting and a 4 5/8" as my field gun when I'm working at the farm. The short one usually has the snake shot loads in it for my slithery friends. 788 ------------- "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special." Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 |
Posted By: windywales
Date Posted: 26 May 2020 at 23:59
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5" Colt Police Positive 32-20. Sold my hogleg. windy ------------- Whar i growed up "magnum" wuz anuther wurd fer "lousy hunter" |
Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 27 May 2020 at 08:31
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Nice gun windy. Friend owned a bar, kept that same gun under the counter below the cash drawer. ------------- “ The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.” |
Posted By: TomP
Date Posted: 31 May 2020 at 09:24
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Still a convertible Ruger Single Six, so the 22 magnum...leaving aside the somewhat questionable practice of shooting a Savage 24C's 20-gauge barrel one-handed. |
Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 01 June 2020 at 08:00
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Those Savage 24s were nice guns. ------------- “ The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.” |
Posted By: klallen
Date Posted: 21 April 2023 at 19:36
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Only 3 years late to the party. This is my biggest. kor ------------- A Big Mouth Don't Make A Big Man !!! The Duke |
Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 21 April 2023 at 19:40
DANG thats nice! 45 long colt, Black hawk is mine. ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
Posted By: klallen
Date Posted: 21 April 2023 at 20:15
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Nice Seemed like Taurus stopped making these Raging Bull M500's almost as quick as they introduced them. It's a sturdy built revolver so don't think it was because of any mechanical issues. I never heard of any issues, anyway, and certainly haven't experienced any. Maybe just low sales numbers. Taurus is taking another crack at the .500 with their Raging Hunter line now. I use three loads in mine. Hornady's factory offering using their 300 gr ftx. They advertise almost 2100 fps. I've never checked. My go to handload using Leadheads 500 gr. wfngc at 1560 fps (snappy little number). And my fun load uses a 700 gr fn cast at around 1200 fps. There's as much bullet in the case as out of the case and it fills up the cylinder completely. lol. kor ------------- A Big Mouth Don't Make A Big Man !!! The Duke |