Originally Posted By: SamuelKing
I'm just curious if anyone regularly uses a handgun for whitetail hunting. If so, what do you use specifically -- make and model, barrel length, scope or irons, and bullet? I'm considering giving it a try and wonder what people have used successfully.


I use an Encore with a 15" .30-06 barrel for all of my deer hunting. My load is a new one. It is a 130 gr Barnes TSX. Have yet to get a deer with it but I like the way it shoots. I use a Simmons 4X scope.

I don't think you can go wrong with an Encore.

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