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What all have you killed with a handgun? #187492 12/13/2017 5:35 PM
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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.


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Re: What all have you killed with a handgun? [Re: Franchise] #187499 12/13/2017 6:33 PM
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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..
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Thank God for wild boar..
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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.

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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.

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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.


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

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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.

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James, did you consume all that hog meat?

Just curious.

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

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


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


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Re: What all have you killed with a handgun? [Re: rmocarsky] #187518 12/14/2017 10:26 AM
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 Originally Posted By: rmocarsky
James, did you consume all that hog meat?

Just curious.

Rmocarsky


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
otherwise I`ed be sporting a nice set of tusks....
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Re: What all have you killed with a handgun? [Re: ruger4570] #187519 12/14/2017 11:07 AM
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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.

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Re: What all have you killed with a handgun? [Re: Randy M] #187521 12/14/2017 2:59 PM
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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.


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

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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.
 Originally Posted By: ruger4570
field mice

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.

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 Originally Posted By: Okie Hunter
"Killed just about everything that walked or crawled at one time and I'm here to kill you Little Bill."


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Re: What all have you killed with a handgun? [Re: karl] #187555 12/15/2017 1:41 PM
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 Originally Posted By: karl
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.
[quote=ruger4570] field mice

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.

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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,

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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.

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

Rmocarsky

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Re: What all have you killed with a handgun? [Re: billa] #187595 12/17/2017 3:31 AM
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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.

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

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 Originally Posted By: rmocarsky
With all those high stake encounters have you ever encountered an aggressive boar or close call?

Rmocarsky


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.


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


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 Originally Posted By: karl
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.
 Originally Posted By: ruger4570
field mice

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.









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 Originally Posted By: KRal
.....almost a horse one time for throwing me.









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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.
\:D

Jeep, that is.

Also a horse with a broken leg that a rancher asked me to dispatch, with the understanding that I could then take his tractor and drag it to a good spot and use it for coyote bait. *Eight coyotes fell to the gun on that little deal.
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P.S.: No disrespect meant; my sweetheart has Cherokee blood in her.

*FWIW: I have found that coyotes absolutely LOVE horse meat; even more so than beef, judging by several dozen carcasses that I have hunted off of.







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

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