I wouldn't call my .445 the Worlds most accurate tack driver, but it works and works well within what we expect from a heavy pistol caliber. If it shoots two MOA at 100 that's fine. The deer'll never know it was an inch or two off. The .445 isn't one of my most used Handis, but I've never fed it anything it wouldn't shoot. It's not one of the bullet on bullet Handis I'm proud to own, but It did shoot the pants off a Ruger semi- auto carbine.
I may be the odd ball but I like extractors on my rifles and ejectors on my shotguns. So far I haven't spent any money, just rejoined parts left over from prior builds, which to me is the best kind of project to play with.
I'm another odd ball. All my Handis are extractors. Shotguns are ejectors. I don't shoot shotguns enough to reload for them and don't care if I find hulls. Even the bulk of my small game hunting is done with a rifle. 99.99% of the time I don't need a fast second shot.....I either missed and the critter is gone, I hit it and it's down, or the tag is for one only. There's nothing here on Da U.P. that's gonna eat me if I screw up.
The big question that always comes up is speed. Figuring I wear gloves while hunting about eleven and a half months a year, Either for cold or bugs, I don't like the ejector. I can pick the case out within a second or two of the time it takes me to jamb my gloved hand between the scope and the hammer to catch one. It's difficult to catch with gloves; you can't feel it well......if I miss it, I'm digging around in snow, mud, leaves, grass, cow and horse manure, etc. to find it. To me the bottom line is "make the first shot good" and you don't have to worry about where the brass is.
The other point I'd like to make is that if I were hunting dangerous game on the ground, it wouldn't be with a Handi.....Not unless I'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Shooting off the bench, you have lots of time. You'll want to cool the barrel between rounds.
Pete
