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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: Brenden] #156285 02/15/2015 12:06 AM
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1964(I was 15 Years old) Illinois fox squirrel with a Ruger Single Six with magnum cylinder. I didn't even own a camera then. Cotton tails to follow in the winter time with standard cylinder. By the way when I shot that fox squirrel I knew the magnum cylinder was not my bag(i think that's when my deftness started)!
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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: 500WE] #156310 02/16/2015 7:03 PM
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1991 antelope with S&W 44Mag.Was hooked, got a F/A 454 then a encore with .308. Then a .375 JDJ Barrel. Now I am going to try a glock 10mm.Grew up hunting with ruger22 .Hunting with a handgun is way more exciting then a rifle. Teaching my son now. Rifles are for wall hangers now.

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: IKEWESSON] #156340 02/17/2015 3:06 PM
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I was left under a tree with a Colt Woodsman .22 LR by my dad, breaking all manner of Illinois laws back then, 10 years old, 1960s. I didn't get the squirrel but it was my first handgun hunt. I took my first big game in 1979 with a S&W 57 6 inch, nickle plated, 41 Magnum with Winchester 175 grain HP Silvertip. Little 4 point buck eating persimmons in the back pasture. Loved it! I now have a 3 screw Blackhawk .41 Magnum. You can't hunt everything with a 9.5 inch Super Redhawk 480 Ruger, but you can try.

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: 500WE] #156342 02/17/2015 4:13 PM
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2006 whitetail Doe with Redhawk in .44.

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: SSC] #156371 02/18/2015 6:14 AM
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2005. I killed a wild hog with my ruger super Blackhawk at about 10 yds. The gentleman that ran that operation showed me his 500 linebaugh. Then he showed me scars on his leg from a hog. Said he had the 500 built after that. He said the 500 was his security blanket as no hog would get to him after being shot with it. He let me fire it and I was hooked

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: jaydub in wi] #156812 02/28/2015 5:32 PM
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My first game I took with a handgun was in 1970. I used my Ruger Single Six on rabbits when I was going to school in CO. I've used handguns on small game ever since.

My first big game was taken in 1986 with a Ruger Super Blackhawk. I took a doe antelope on my first handgun only hunt.

Except for one hunt all my revolver hunting has been with open sights. All my single shots are scoped

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: wyote] #156820 02/28/2015 9:28 PM
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My first animal dispatched was prairie dogs on a 2000 dog shoot in SD with a SS Contender chambered in a 22 K-Hornet 14 inch super barrel. Been hooked ever since.

Bought a 7-30 Waters in a 14 inch super the next year and shot a button buck in the late antlerless season.


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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: SEAK] #156849 03/01/2015 9:10 PM
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My dad got a 9 pt buck with his Haws western marshall in .44 mag . Sweat shooting gun the western marshall !

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: Midwesthunter11] #158704 05/04/2015 8:34 PM
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I was 17 in 1981. My brother-in-law and I were on the family lease late on a November afternoon. It was cold and misty. We saw hogs several hundred yards out in the winter wheat and decided to stalk them. We moved through the woods that bordered the field. A few of the hogs decided to leave the field and we jumped them in the mesquites. I dropped two hogs with my Virginian Dragoon chambered in .357. I've been hooked ever since.

Before then I had taken various bunnies and small critters with a Ruger Single Six, but the pigs were my first medium size game.


Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: choctaw] #159012 05/17/2015 12:40 AM
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I was 18 and I had several places to bow hunt hogs and everyday after school I would go check my game cameras and bait up spots with soured corn and this one particular day I pulled up to the land I had permission to hunt and I seen a pretty good size boar run across a trail and so I quickly grabbed my urged RedHawk 44 and went down the trail to see if I could put a stalk on him, long story short I got him cornered up in a briar thicket and he charged at me and I shot 2 times with the first one meeting the mark the other two was because I was shaken up and making sure he was stopped! He was about 10 feet when I folded him up and he weighed 172 lbs let me see if I can post a pic

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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: eastex] #159013 05/17/2015 12:45 AM
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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: eastex] #159043 05/17/2015 4:14 PM
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84/85ish squirrels and coons with a heritage 22, I believe that was the brand name. 89/90 for big game with Rossi 357mag.


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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: 500WE] #159061 05/17/2015 10:12 PM
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1982 interarms Virginian dragoon in 45LC. Shot a big turkey tom about 65 yds. Thru the years I've hunted with ruger revolvers and Tc single shots. This year I added a glock 10mm to the arsonel. I'm amazed at its accuracy.

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: muddydog] #159084 05/18/2015 6:21 PM
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A Colt Diamondback .22 accounted for my first trophy animal with a handgun in 1999, a huge field mouse. I opened the door on a target shed at the range as I was preparing for the rest of the group to show up and he showed himself. I went back to the truck to grab my Colt, but he had vanished. I picked up a target backer and as I spun around to set it out, he shot out the end onto the dirt path that lead towards the range. I was able to hit him at about 7 yards. I was hooked. Later on the same year, a whitetail doe with a Colt Anaconda 8 inch 45LC, 45 yards as she was bedded.

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Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: PythonHunter] #159135 05/21/2015 2:34 AM
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I shot a 130lb doe in the early 90's with my 10.5" Super Blackhawk 44mag. 300g XTP, about 50-60 yards high through the shoulders and spine (bang flop) she never twitched after hitting the groung.

Mike

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: Ellis] #159139 05/21/2015 3:31 AM
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 Originally Posted By: Ellis
Very first one,'91.


Wow, that's pretty impressive, considering my derringer prints about 4 feet high and off to one side with most any ammo, I have deep admiration for anyone trying to kill anything past arms length with a derringer.


Choot em!
Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: 500WE] #159220 05/23/2015 8:35 PM
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A rat with a S@W 22 at the farm... 16yrs old. It's amazing what a hose off the tractor will bring out of hole's in the ground!!!!

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: 500WE] #159221 05/23/2015 8:35 PM
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A rat with a S@W 22 at the farm... 16yrs old. It's amazing what a hose off the tractor will bring out of hole's in the ground!!!!

Re: Nostalgia - what & when was your 1st handgun game [Re: 500WE] #159323 05/26/2015 4:48 AM
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Spike buck with a 10" TC contender...1988

Since then piles of whitetails, hogs, turkeys, several elk, antelope, javelina.

Love handgun hunting:)


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