flmason
Even scoped 150 yards is a LOONG shot with a pistol. Unless your a very proficient pistol shot. I owned a 454 Casull RH for a long time and got good enough for about 125 yard shots at deer/elk/bear. Anything further I was never comfortable to take the shot. Anything inside 100 yards was toast! Now I just use my Puma 454 ! Give me a good broadside out too 200 yards -no problem!
Yes, true on the yardage. It's been many years, but 100 was reasonable for me with a New Model SBH I used to have. Was using 19.5 of 2400 behind an H&G 503 KT cast bullet. I used to keep it sighted dead on at 100, and just figure on 6 o'clock hold for 50 .
So the thinking here is, why bother with any of the usual "brush guns" in 30-30 or 45-70, 44 mag, etc. just blow the money on the SRH and be done with it. Then unload the 30 cal. battle rifles as well, etc. Basically sounds like out too 100, it could replace any number of rifles.
Have always been more of a handgun person, ever since I was a kid. Like rifles, but they're more to store, handle maintain. Pistols are just more compact, at the expense of the 150 yrd + shots.
So I'm thinking a mininalist battery could be .22 handgun, .454 handgun and a 12 gauge shotgun of some sort since there's not really a good "shot pistol" I don't think. I could then see some argument for a .22 rifle with scope since, to be effective .22 is really the king of shot placement rounds.
Admittedly though, the list of guns from history I'd like to have runs the gamut from a Brown Bess through things like a Broomhandle Mauser to the latest stuff... you know... it's like women and shoes... LOL!