Indicate the weight of the heaviest animal you've taken with a handgun. Feel free to expound on what the animal was below.

Biggest Critter single choice
	<200
	201-350
	351-500
	501-800
	801-1000
	>1000
Votes accepted starting: 08/09/2009 1:22 AM
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Just a large whitetail that field dressed at 150 pounds.

350 pound boar...

An Axis deer which was pushing 275.

Alaskan Yukon Moose with a custom Encore in .35 Whelen, and a brown bear with a .375 JDJ Contender.

I killed a 2200 pound Indian Water Buffalo, big Yak, large Nilgai, and a 430 pound Russian Boar.

Wild hog a little over 300 lbs using 44 SBH. Had to stop it before it caught any of the dogs.

A russian Boar with my S&W .460. He was 200lbs on the scale.

Several bull elk-Primarily with a 284 Win XP

1 Coyote with Savage Striker/ 7-08. 1 fox with 36 cal. revolver.

Can't find a weight that low on the poll.

rlb that would be less than (<) 200 lbs.

Shiras moose with a FA 454. My guess (cause I have no idea) would be in the 600 to 700 lb range.

Shiras moose w/454

I have taken sevral pigs that were 250+ but the Mule Deer I took last year was the largest Deer I have ever taken. He was around 200 dressed

Everyone likes to see pics too.
Also, what kinds of optics are being used the most.
What did you use on the 45-70?
Just some rookie questions from a rookie.

Whitetails with 44 - but our Southern version usually lands squarely in the lowest Category!

Should have taken a handgun to Africa...

bison 1700#, S&W 500 PC, 6 1/2", 440gr. Lee cast wfngc,
lil' gun, near max, 1 shot 78 yards.

Shot placement? Sounds impressive anyway.

Gary asks "with a handgun"...

I've hunted New Hampshire black bear most of my adult life. Can't say how many I have encountered. Mostly small sows and 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 year olds, and cubbies. The one bear that I felt was of the size and quality that I desired to take field dressed just shy of the desireable 300 mark at 294 lbs. It was a healthy quality bear though (and sure "looked" more than 300 to me at the time!). I felt very deserving to have taken that bruiser as I still-hunted him the hard way just as I do big whitetails.
I have taken a number of heavy New Hampshire whitetail bucks with rifle and revolver. (They did not "all" have trophy size racks, not unusual for the severe winter climate of the upper northeast. Sometimes the bucks up here grow bigger, faster than the antlers are capable of catching up.) The largest with revolver was... I think the 230 lbs. He had a very wide rack with only 9 points (4x5) on heavy beams. When I was younger, the one and only doe that I have ever shot (black powder) dressed out at something over 150 lbs. I can't remember the exact weight but she was magnificent!
Then there was the time that this giant red squirrel sounded the intruder alarm on me while I was stalking crows on the edge of some cut corn with my 12 gauge, full choke and #4's...
I really don't know just how big he was, as after the crows scrammed I lost my composure and the squirrel evaporated!

Renster

water buffalo, highland bull, and 800lb piggy.... :?)

Pictures of Cashmoney's animals are on Franchise's pictures.

Mikewin,

The shot on the bison was a quartering with the bullet striking the left shoulder, fracturing it, taking the top of the heart and a portion of the lung, passing through the diaphram and passing through the right posterior rib cage

sorry folks, i re-read my original post, the bison was 1300#, not 1700#. you'd think with my "one finger" typing i wouldn't hit the wrong key. the other info is correct.

My Kudu, 110 yards double lunged .45 LC 330gr WFNGC MBW bullet at 1260 FPS was under skin on far side From Bisley HunterThe Kudu went 30 yards!!

Forgot about an old bison I took with 454....he was a big boy and had to weigh more then the Shiras moose I mentioned above.

A Yukon moose with a .375 JDJ.

Hunlee has only shoot white tailed deer with 375 windchester butt there has ben reports of ellaphonts and worce being shot with handguns!!!!!!!!!!!

hunlee

Mary Jane; 5'2" 185lb but a lot of fun!! squirmed so much I thought I was fighting a big sow! Sorry for the sic humor. 6x6 Elk, BC 315, 175yds at 10,000ft with a 15" 375JDJ; 285 Speer African Grand Slam over a stiff charge of 4064. It's on my wall and in my belly....and on the bragging board! Mary jane is still looking for a husband, as far as I know...Hey Hunlee????

Alaskan Barren Ground Caribou around 350-375 lbs. Took it with a 7 1/2" Ruger Redhawk SS in .44 mag with a 2X Burris Pistol scope.
Bullet was a Joel Penny's 300 gr. GC. 4 rounds broad side at 125 yds in the lungs through and through. 20-30 Whitetail deer but the caribou was the biggest.
Flyrodder

Argentine water buffalo ~2000 lbs, (FA 9" .475 Linebaugh). Entre Rios province. Water buffalo were first imported to Argentina in the 1920's from the Indian subcontinent.
Australian water buffalo, also ~ 2000 lbs. taken in the N.T. (Arnhemland) with a 12 1/2" T/C .375 JDJ in 2000, the last buffalo to be legally handgunned in that country. Politicians changed the bureaucrats in charge, and they stopped issuing import permits for handgun hunting the following year.
Mature water buffalo bulls are typically ~ 200-500 lbs heavier than cape buffalo bulls.
Also took a Himalayan Yak in 1991 with a T/C 12" .45-70 Contender, but they are smaller than water buff also, perhaps 1800 lbs.
Several North American bison, large black bears, elk, hogs, etc. have been taken with FA .475 L's and .500 WE's.

Several nice 14" - 15" Wyoming Antelope as well as many Doe Antelope. .308 15" Encore and a 16" 7-30 Waters Contender. I have a 6mm-223 in a 15" Contender Barrel that has accounted for many Prarie Dogs.

bbybee welcome good guys here you and learn alot and we will
help you spend money forsure. lol
what load are you using in 6mm/223 i picked one up have not
worked a load for it.
larry223

4 Water Buffalo Bulls each around 2000 lbs plus 1 cow around 800 lbs. All were taken in Australia's NT, with a 44 Ruger Redhawk in June of this year. While you can't legally import your handgun anymore, as of 2008 you can get a handgun hunting permit from Australia to legally use the outfitters handgun.

Moose, AK, 358 JDJ. Two shots and down.

Bill in OR

The wild hog I took that was pictured in my article on my SSK Beauty and Beast.

Yukon moose probably weighed about 1,200 lbs. I should know. Had to pack it out!!

Whitetail doe...I wish I could say cape buffalo.

Largest was a russian boar, 225 lbs
There were much larger ones but this one was PURTY!

It's not a competition, I was just curious what size critters people have taken and where the majority would fall. Congratulations on your doe - I bet you were pretty dang proud of taking that doe with a handgun.

Largest: whitetail doe .308 Win. Encore.
Smallest: gray squirrel .22 Ruger MKIII Hunter.
Large or small, they both are memorable. The doe because she was the first blood on the Encore pistol. The squirrel because it was about 0 degrees, I was sitting in the woods, drinking coffee out of my thermos, with a good friend. He missed one with his rifle. Man I love hunting!