What all have you killed with a handgun?

Junebug's thread inspired this one.

What all (different species) have you killed with a handgun?

I've taken whitetail, hogs, javelina, turkey, and plethora of small game like raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, etc.

Mark H...it may be easier for you to list the 2 or 3 species on this planet you HAVEN'T killed. Hehe.

groundhogs, foxes, coyote, WT deer, Feral and Russian boar, Water Buffalo, Yaks, Nilgai Antelope, Blackbuck antelope, Fallow deer, Bobcat, feral goat, many types of exotic sheep, and racoons, beavers, and Opossums.

I feel my crowning achievement is taking close to 100 boar with handguns from 357 and up.....All the other animals I`ve taken have just filled in the spaces between boar hunts..

Numerous whitetail, mule deer, axis deer, fallow deer, sika deer, turkey, elk by the truckload, seveal variety of waterbuff, capebuff wildebeest, about 40 oryx or so kudu and impala once wounded, about 12 bison, mt lion, innumerable various hogs. Feral serbs 😢, oh yeah blackbear too along with varmints.

Several deer with a Super Redhawk, several deer with a T/C Contender and a small black bear with a Super Blackhawk.

I have .22lr, .22 Hornet and .223 barrels for my T/C Contender, but I have not used them on small game.

One deer with a super Blackhawk, one with a GP100, several with a Ruger Redhawk 44 mag and several with a CVA Optima V2 muzzle loading pistol. I have a 30 30 contender and a 223 contender that I have not blooded yet. I only hunt whitetails in North Carolina.

Squirrels,rabbits,rats,raccoons,many many armadillos,bobcats,a few deer

Iv"e killed a bunch of Deer, Boars, Feral pigs, Fallow doe,Scottish Highland , Texas Longhorn, snakes, Tree rats, and a Coon, and Damn near a guy breaking into my truck one night.

James, did you consume all that hog meat?

Just curious.

Rmocarsky

Whitetail Deer, Black Bear, Coon, opossum, squirrel, rabbit, coyote, muskrat, rattle snake, prairie dog, field mice, and pheasant.

Killed 2 wild hogs with my 45LC Blackhawk, a whitetail buck with my GP100, and a few raccoons and coyotes here and there.

Whitetail, antelope, angora goat, buffalo, groundhogs, squirrels,rabbits, sika deer.

No... Most was donated to food banks or given to friends.....I knew some NY Giant, LE officer tailgaters who loved me for all the boar meat I gave them

ALASKA: 3 BLACK BEARS; LOWER 48: 2 ELK, SEVERAL PRONGHORNS (BOTH SEXES), 2 MULE DEER, AN AMERICAN BUFFALO, A WATER BUFFALO, A LONGHORN, A LOT OF FERAL HOGS, SOME JAVELINA, A LOT OF AOUDAD, AXIS, FALLOW, SIKA AND BLACKBUCK (BOTH SEXES), A LOT OF WHITETAILS (BUCKS & DOES), ARMENIAN, RED, MOUFLON, CORSICAN & MIXED SHEEP (RAMS), RACOONS, SKUNKS, PORCUPINES & RABBITS, 2 NILGAI, RATTLESNAKES, A TURKEY, AN ADDAX, AND A COUPLE OF ORYX; AND AFRICA: 2 HIPPO, 2 ELAND, 1 MALE LION, 3 CAPE BUFFALO, 3 LEOPARD, BONGO, SABLE, 2 NYALA, 4 BUSHBUCK, SEVERAL KUDU & ZEBRA, RED HATEBEEST (MALE AND FEMALE), BLUE WILDEBEET, 3 WATERBUCKS, BLESBOK, BUNCHES OF IMPALA, SEVERAL WARTHOGS, A COUPLE OF GEMSBOK, 2 REEDBUCKS, A DUIKER AND A KLIPSPRINGER.

I have never kept track of the numbers:
Whitetail (doe & buck), Mule Deer (doe & buck), Antelope (doe & buck), Elk (cow and bull), over a dozen South African plains animals, hogs, rabbit, squirrel, rattlesnakes, prairie dogs, rock chucks, badgers, coyotes, bobcats, and other small critters.

Would like to hunt caribou and moose someday.

I pretty much only hunt deer, but did kill a quillpig last summer with my 1911 as it was getting a little close to the domicile for comfort.

1 wooly boar--wild dogs-- ground hogs, deer

Bullfrogs, Armadillos, Possums, Skunks, Turtles, Snakes, Alligator Gar, Feral Hogs, Javelina, Crows, Foxes, Coyotes, Bobcats, Weasels, Cottontails, Jackrabbits, Squirrels, Grounds Squirrels, Rock Chucks, Badgers, Ducks, Pheasants, Grouse, Partridge, Huns, all out of the air. White tails, Mule Deer, Bears, Elk (13) Lion, Moose, Antelope, Turkeys, Sage Hens, Blue Wildebeest, Wart Hog, Zebra, Impala, Field Lions, Feral Dogs & 2 cows & 1 horse.

Dick

whitetail deer, hogs, coyotes and small game and pest.

This has been a very impressive list! of all the things listed, I think I might have found this one to be the most impressive.

Those suckers are small and fast! Was it a shot shell load, or a (hopefully) single projectile?

I think there should be some measure of animal/bullet weight. maybe a lb/grain type of measurement. A deer could be in the 0.5-2 range, a elephant in the 15-25 range and a mouse in the 0.0005 range.

Dragonfly, butterfly, grasshopper, wasp, cricket, mouse, rat, snake, lizard, toad, bullfrog, turtle, chipmunk, flying squirrel, grey squirrel, fox squirrel, cottontail, quail, pheasant, blackbird, sparrow, crow, dove, turkey, armadillo, raccoon, opossum, skunk, bobcat, coyote, feral dog, feral cat, gar, carp, buffalo fish, wild hog, exotic rams, sika doe, axis buck, whitetails, and black bear.....almost a horse one time for throwing me.

Whitetail, hogs, turtles, snakes, crows, armadillos and a bobcat.

"Killed just about everything that walked or crawled at one time and I'm here to kill you Little Bill."

AND DESERVE GOTS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! CLINT EASTWOOD IN THE UNFORGIVEN, GREAT MOVIE.

Those suckers are small and fast! Was it a shot shell load, or a (hopefully) single projectile?

All with single projectile. Some with 22 and a few with my GP100...The bigger ones lol.

Forgot about birdshot, shot lots of spiders with 22 shot.

All of my handgun kills have been with revolvers mostly and a deer with a 1911 and many small game animals. My big game taken are deer, pigs, bison, Asian buffalo, moose, bear,

I've taken rabbits (cottontail, jack, and snowshoe) squirrels, blue grouse, ruffed grouse, turkeys, coons, skunks, prairie dogs, rock chucks, porcupines, badger, bobcat, fox, coyotes, deer, (whitetail and mulies) antelope, bears, elk, and a moose.

Deer, fox, coyote, ground hogs, squirrel, black birds......n who knows whats next. 😈

With all those high stake encounters have you ever encountered an aggressive boar or close call?

Rmocarsky

25 or so Whitetail deer, 3 pronghorn antelope, Greater Kudu, Blue Wildebeest, Impala, Blesbok, 2 Warthog, Red Sheep, wild boar, Corsican ram, 5 wild turkeys, many squirrels, many pheasants on the wing with a Contender .410, several ruffed grouse (2 on the wing) many rabbits, several porcupines, many groundhogs, prairie dog, many red squirrels & chipmunks, skunks, opossums, snakes,
Bees, cicadas, and numerous miscellaneous insects mostly with a pellet gun.

I have had a few close calls on some whitetail with my .357, but I've taken some raccoons with it as well as several armadillos. With my 22A I've taken more armadillos with it than I can count. once with my .357 I had to shoot a beaver out of self defense it died at my feet as I was stuck in a mucky marsh, apparently I made him feel cornered or something.

Cookie, I would have loved to see that rodeo! I figured Max & Craig would have chimed in by now.

Dick

Deer/Pigs/Antelope/Small Game

Deer. Squirrels. Groundhogs.

I've had a couple (one in NC and one in Florida) of wild hog encounters that could have ended worse then they did. Also had a friend two years ago get cut pretty badly by a wounded boar in Florida. It's fairly rare but it happens. If you hunt 'em enough you are bound to have it happen at some point.

Deer, to include fallow, groundhogs, squirrel, a few mice and a couple snakes. I would love to hunt an elk someday.

Snowshoe, jack and cottontail rabbits, crows, prairie dogs, skunks, badgers, 2 bobcats, coyotes, foxes, one wild boar (I need James to take me with him!); antelope, whitetail deer, mule deer, elk, and an old Cherokee.

Whitetail, lots of wild hogs, squirrels, rabbits, coyote, bobcat, and lots of fur bearers if you include using a handgun on a trap line.

I've taken many whitetails, 1 boar, killed alot of trees (punching holes in paper)

Deer, hog, coyote, rabbit, corsican ram, frogs, squirrels, and assorted varmits.

Antelope, Mule deer, Elk, Reindeer, Pigs, Coyote, Fox, Prairie Dog, Gopher, Rock Chuck, Cows, Bulls and a horse or two. The last couple were mercy kills. Oh and paper targets, clay pigeons, bottles, shotgun shells and anything else for practice.

This is my first year truly hunting Big Game with a handgun, but over the years I have killed dozens of Raccoon, Rabbit, and Squirrel with a High Standard 22 Revolver and a Ruger Mark II 22. Hoping to retire my long guns and just use my Bow and Handgun for Big Game from now on. Just harvested my 1st Big Game, a Whitetail Buck with the Ruger in 454 Casull.

I have taken prairie dogs, chucks, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, coyotes, foxes, bobcat, hogs, whitetails, antelopes, black bear, & elk. I keep dreaming of a brown bear/grizzly hunt.

insects, reptiles, frogs, turtles fish, mice, rats, gophers, prairie dogs, woodchuck, rabbits, squirrels, coon, fox coyote possum cats,dogs, cows, horse, sheep, pigs, deer, bear, pheasants, partridge, turkey, porcupine, armadillo, beaver

Whitetail, mule deer, antelope, hogs, fallow deer, armadillos.

Deer-Grouse-Porcupines- Squirrels so far .

What's that supposed to mean?

I was 8yrs old when I started shooting rats in the barn with a CO2 pistol and I've been hooked ever since. Since then it's been bullfrogs, ground/gray/fox squirrels, swamp/marsh/cottontail rabbits, various birds, foxes, coyotes, beavers, skunks, ground hogs, wild boar, feral cats, feral dogs, turkeys, bobcats, possums, coons, various snakes, whitetail deer, fallow deer, sheep, goats, longhorn and water buffalo.

Just what it says, Craig, not Craig44.

Dick

Oh, sure.

Wild boar, squirrels, rabbits, Texas Dall, Black Hawaiian Ram, Axis deer, Corsican Ram, Sika deer, Fallow deer, coyote, fox, groundhog, and countless whitetail.

Deer, squirrels, feral dogs. My most gratifying/satisfying

''kill'' was a Craftsman chainsaw l bought to clear a pond

l had purchased for a home site.. l was forever sharpening

the blade, tightening the bar, oiling and gassing this devil

machine from Sears... Even had it worked on a couple times.

Still it was the same old dog and pony show... Then one day

l finally had ENOUGH. l pulled out my S&W K38 and put a bullet

thru the block. Then gave it a watery grave by throwing into the

deepest part of the pond:-) l never felt better about a KILL

before or since. lt was really an EXECUTION.. That damn saw

refused to DIE. As the years passed l would see an occasional oil

spot on the pond surface

Bighorn sheep (ewe), whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, cottontail, snowshoe hare, grouse, porcupine and squirrel.

Whitetail deer, gray squirrels, and fox squirrels.

What is a "close call" on a whitetail? Were they shooting back at you?

After reading the amounts of game taken with a handgun I would figure the bragging board would be overflowing with photos...
Come on guys.... where`s all the pics???? Post those photos as I love looking at them................. no matter what the animal is or how big or small...lets show the world what WE can do.....

CRAIG44: IN THE MID 50's I GOT A PLAINSMAN BB CO2 PISTOL AND MY HANDGUN HUNTING CAREER STARTED. TOOK WATER TURTLES AND SNAKES WITH IT, PLUS BIRDS OF ALL KIND, ESPECIALLY GRACKLES, AND A RABBIT. ALSO GOT TO SHOOT MY FATHER'S FS RUGER 22 AUTO PISTOL AND JAP NAMBU AS A KID. A GOOD BEGINNING.

Deer, Elk, B&C Black Bear, Grouse, Turkey, Rabbit, Squirrel, Ground Hog, Skunk, Coyote, Ptarmigan, Horse