Handguns, an opinionated overview

george20042007

Got to admit, I'm with the bigger is better group. I like the 45 ACP and up. The only problem I have is trying to conceal them, so, I don't. I use everything above the 45 ACP for hunting. In the hot weather months, I still depend on my .380 ACPs, cold weather months I pack the 1911 in 45 ACP.

In the field, I gotta go with my other 45s, & when I want the one gun that does it all, I'm hooked on the S&W 460 (just as good as a rifle). Similarly, when I have a need for rifles, I take one that's chambered for the 45 LC for up to wolf size game or 45-70 for anything larger. Though I have rifles in 223, 243, 30-06 and 300 Weatherby, I just don't have as much fun with them, I'm hooked on 45s.

Keep it coming...

Bushmaster

But George...I've taken a spike and a forked horn with a .357 magnum Colt SAA with a 4 3/4" barrel using a 140 gr XTP and 16 grains of 2400...

Crackshot

You must be a little fellow George20042007! I find the easiest gun to conceal IS a 1911 in any caliber.
I agree Bushmaster, I also have shot deer with the 357 mag, both light and heavy bullets and the deer didnt know the difference. I use a Ruger GP161 with a leupold 2X scope Very Happy

. Sorry if that ruins the whole thing for you bushy! Sad

Bushmaster

No Crackshot. It doesn't...If I was to take up handgun hunting again I would have to use a scope too...Eyes you know...64 years of use has taken thier toll. Can still see 100 miles, just can't see my hand or sights in front of my face...

Crackshot

I know the feeling. 41 years and NOW I have to have glasses to read and shoot too. Mad

Bushmaster

Yup...I was 58 and trying to read a menu that I put on the floor of a better resuraunt...Wife said, "That's it...Yer gettin' glasses."

1895ss

Yep I've had glasses so I could read for about 10 years now and what bothers me the most is that I can no longer shoot a rifle with open sights cause the sights are too fuzzy.

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5948

Glasses, used to have them as a kid and recently got them agian, always had eye problems (got surgery on one eye), and a slight vision problem but I got the oposite problem, my focus is alittle bad at a distance, my glasses make things TINY when using them with anything closer then about 10 yards so I generally don't use them when I'm working with my hands on something. I do shoot with them though. Up close I can read fine print like if it was normal sized text. Smile

Dimitri

1895ss

Yep, after about 10 yards my vision clears up and I'm good out to infinity. I was blessed with 20/20 vision for all my life until my mid 40's. Then things went to he!!. The further away the better my eye sight is. Smile

Bushmaster

Yer wife must have bad eye sight too 1895zz...Otherwise she wouldn't have hooked up with you...

1895ss

What makes you say that.........? Just cause I look like a Marlin........... Very Happy

Bushmaster

'cause yer ugly and had she had her glasses on...Well....

1895ss

Bushmaster wrote:

'cause yer ugly and had she had her glasses on...Well....

Hhhhhmmmmmmmmm.........!!!!!!! You know what they say about opinions????? They are like A holes ....... everybodies got one........... Very Happy

Bushmaster

Mine don't stink...I wipe...

1895ss

Bushmaster wrote:

Mine don't stink...I wipe...

Good !!!!

By the way ...... my wife happens to think I'm a handsome devil....... Evil or Very Mad