I always played around with handguns but was mostly a rifle guy. I kept gravitating to shorter carbine type rifles and after a Hernia surgery bought my first Super 14 Contender. Hmmm ? Much handier than any carbine I thought. Well that was the start and after having the good fortune of meeting the "West Virginia Hitman" he made a believer out of me! His exploits helped to dismiss many of the short sighted views the "Experts" had cast on handgun hunting. As the "Hitman" did ,most of my rifles were sold or traded to finance my Specialty Pistol habit. As I tell many non handgun hunters , harvesting any game animal successfully is special but doing it with a handgun magnifies the accomplishment ten fold!