Author Topic: Handgun kill pics (Read 5923 times)

Mike in Virginia · « **on:** May 08, 2013, 06:52:46 AM »

I was wondering if some of you expert hand gunners would mind showing pictures of your harvest, maybe with a short explanation of the circumstances of the shot, what your specific handgun was, and your load.

Me, I ain't got no pics. I haven't been all that successful in my years of revolver hunting. A few deer and some small game, nothing special at all. I'm looking forward to any responses.

Thanks

Mike in Virginia · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2013, 01:23:08 PM »

Uh-oh. Misleading title. Lots of views but no replies. Looks like they thought I had pics. Sorry.

30063030223357 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 09, 2013, 06:10:15 PM »

No pics yet, but hopefully this coming deer season here in Pa. Will be hunting with my ruger blackhawk bisley in 45 colt. The load will be a missouri 255 gr. SWC at 1060 fps. Not a powerhouse load, but enough to get the job done. Shooting pretty good out to 50 yds. off hand so far. Tried to attach a pic of the revolver, but couldn't get to load up? Have shot a deer with my ruger gp100 357 magnum several years ago, and more recently with my 30-30 contender but need to get a kill with the new 45 colt.

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #3 on:** May 09, 2013, 06:21:27 PM »

Working on the Company Lap top right now.
I will post a picture of me in Idaho on an elk hunt where I shot a Rabbit with my Browning Buck Mark II with a 40 grain target round.
I have killed a bunch of other small game with pistols but never took pictures.
There have been Countless Mice in the garage with a Ruger Bisley and Aguilla Super rounds, (first tried a BB gun to have a bloody BB bounce all around the garage). Southern CA
There have been Rabbits with my TPH, and my Browning buck Mark Super Sillohuette - Southern CA
There have been Squirrels with my Browning Buck Mark I and one Opposum my uncle was about to pick up till I told him to wait and shot it as it was Playing pussum. NC
I have shot at a running deer with my 44 Mag 6" S&W M29 with 240 grain Soft points only to miss. I found out you are not going to fast draw a Deer in the swamp NC
Oh and Ground Squirrels with a T/C 14" 223 shooting lead free Federal. Tajone Ranch on a pig hunt. I have a picture of my buddy with one he killed.

shot1 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 10, 2013, 02:56:36 AM »

I can't get my pictures to this site like I used to. I hope this works.

This attachment is a 7 point buck that I took in 2010 with my T/C Contender with a 14" 30-30AI barrel made by MGM. He came into the logging path that I hunt on at 87 yards. I placed a 125gr Nosler ballistic tip that left the muzzle at 2670 fps propelled by 33 grs IMR 4198 from a WW case set off by a Wolf LR primer in the center of his front shoulder and he hit the ground dead as a hammer. I took 7 deer with this rig in 2010 & 2011. Last season I did not get a shot with the pistol. I have killed a lot of deer with different handguns. Most interesting day hunting with a pistol happened one evening about an hour before dark in 2009. I was hunting with a T/C Contender with a 10" 357 mag barrel. I was shooting a 180 gr Hornady XTP pushed by 13.5 grs H-110. I shot a BIG doe at 111 yards crossing the logging road mentioned above. She dropped in her tracks. Since you can shoot more than one deer a day in this section of NC I stayed in the stand until dark hoping another deer would show up. About 15 minutes after I shot this deer something low to the ground caught my eye on the other end of the logging path from where I had shot the deer. Coming down the road through the weeds was a fox. When it got a little closer to my stand I tried to distract it without making too much noise. I knew he would go down that path and find my deer and start eating on it. I have had this happen before. I had some 35mm film bottles that I use as sent bombs in the stand. I threw one at the fox. He stopped and look at it and then tried to bite it. It popped out of his mouth and startled him. He jumped into the woods and I thought he was gone. A few minutes latter I look down the path toward where my deer was laying and there was that fox standing up on top of my dead deer getting ready to start eating it. I carefully aimed the Contender and picked that fox right off my deer. It was was not 5 minutes latter that I looked up the path the other way and here comes another fox. I let it get about 50 yards away from me and made a fawn bleat sound to stop him. He did and I shot him between the eyes. The fellow that owns the farm where I hunt wants us to kill every fox we see because he raises chickens and they really do a number on his chickens.

Camba · « **Reply #5 on:** May 10, 2013, 06:10:33 AM »

Check this video (link). I guess this is what you want to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTeEmNUkjw
Camba

tacklebury · « **Reply #6 on:** May 10, 2013, 06:48:19 PM »

This last deer season, I was totin' my .45 Colt in my chest holster and carrying my .45 Colt Carbine and sitting in a stand on opening morning. It was barely first light and I saw a NICE buck about 75 yards out. I waited until the magic minute came and it was a little dark in the woods. I shot and it hit way off. I couldn't believe it. The deer just stood there, so I loaded another and it shot about 8 foot ahead of the deer and I was like no way.... Anyway I was looking the gun all over in the dingy dark woods and figured man my eyes are getting bad. The buck ran off after the second shot though and I was sooo peeved. I loaded up another shell and sat back thinking I'm really going to aim small this time and suddenly I heard a crack to my left rear and as I looked over my shoulder a 6 point was behind me and an 8 point & 4 point were fighting over about 30 yards and a little spike horn was running around them in a circle. I couldn't believe my eyes. The 6 point was intently licking a stick above his scrape and had his head stretched all the way up and he was 15 yards beside me. I aimed at his heart, pulled the trigger and it completely missed!! I knew something was wrong and wasn't going to miss another shot. All three bucks just stood there looking around and as soon as I got a chance, I pulled the Blackhawk and put one through the 6 points heart. He'd jumped pretty good after the report, so I was pretty sure I had him dead to rights, but as he bound over a hill 20 yards away I decided to put an anchor shot in him to be sure. It went angling up through his left thigh and he was down in 3 more strides. Anyway, this was my first deer with a handgun. I've shot many squirrels, woodchucks and other things, but getting big game really rocks with a pistola.

Jay HHI6818 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 11, 2013, 08:39:41 AM »

8 point WV buck shot with SSK 309JDJ @ 150 yds 165 gr Nosler BT

6 pointer 309JDJ @ 240 yds. 1'st I missed I missed, 2'nd shot connected.

10 point I shot last year with 309JDj @ 60 yds with 309JDJ

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #8 on:** May 11, 2013, 01:43:12 PM »

Quote from: Jay HHI6818 on May 11, 2013, 08:39:41 AM

8 point WV buck shot with SSK 309JDJ @ 150 yds 165 gr Nosler BT

6 pointer 309JDJ @ 240 yds. 1'st I missed I missed, 2'nd shot connected.

10 point I shot last year with 309JDj @ 60 yds with 309JDJ

We have to get you a different T/C barrel that misses more or your county will run out of big bucks soon

ilikemilitaria · « **Reply #9 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:25:54 PM »

35yd shot, CCI Standard Velocity ammo, Browning Buckmark "Varmint special" model, with T/C 3x scope. This squirrel is in the process of being mounted. Biggest fox I ever shot.
dave

ilikemilitaria · « **Reply #10 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:27:03 PM »

65yd shot, quartering away from me.. Ruger Super Redhawk in .44mag. Shooting 180gr. JSP Remington factory loads. Redhawk is topped off with a Leupold 2x EER scope.

dave

ilikemilitaria · « **Reply #11 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:43:23 PM »

63yd shot. Ruger Super Redhawk in .44mag, topped with a Leupold 2x EER scope. Remington 180gr. JSP factory ammo.

ilikemilitaria · « **Reply #12 on:** May 11, 2013, 04:49:49 PM »

(Same deer as 2 pics up..

)

Mike in Virginia · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2013, 03:53:54 PM »

Yes! That's the kind of pics I was talking about. Thanks very much. I so love to see and hear stories about handgun hunts. Nothing else like hunting with a handgun, no matter what the animal taken. I believe anyone who can stand steady in the presence of game and put his handgun shot where it's supposed to go is the ultimate hunter. I've missed so many animals in my pitiful attempts. Even at my age, it's difficult to stay calm when the time comes to shoot.

Jay HHI6818 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 13, 2013, 05:43:26 PM »

We have to get you a different T/C barrel that misses more or your county will run out of big bucks soon .

I sure wish I had kept records on the number of deer I have shot with the 309JDJ! I bet I have shot 25 deer with the 309JDJ, 3 with 6.5 JDJ, one with 257JDJ, two with Encore 209x50 pistol.

drdougrx · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2013, 03:26:38 AM »

FWIW....http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,269598.0.html

Sfairchild · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2013, 03:53:00 PM »

Encore 250 Savage 88 yds

flexjr · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2013, 05:41:17 PM »

towards the end of season, 45 colt superblackhawk hunter, cast performance 335 max charge of lil gun 45 yards. went 100 yards and piled up

ended up killing five deer this past season, all with handguns.

redleg11b · « **Reply #18 on:** May 19, 2013, 10:20:51 AM »

Contender 10" 22LR 4x scope. Was walking the edge of a field and this guy stopped in the tractor path. 40 yards with Aguila Sniper Subsonic. Also in the picture is a small broken antler with velvet still on it.

jem44357 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 22, 2013, 06:08:54 AM »

Russian Boar ~175lb sow taken May 17th at the Double D Ranch in McArthur Ohio. 35 yds off the stick 140 grain Leverevolution. Heart shot she went about 7 yrds and fell down.

Jim

Darrell H · « **Reply #20 on:** May 27, 2013, 03:15:49 PM »

Nice pics guys! Thought that I'd share a few of mine:
Here is a North Georgia 8 point taken with a 9" .41 Mag Contender with a 296/210 grain Remington JSP handload:

North Georgia 8 point taken with a S&W 629 Classic using a 240 grain Remington JSP/296 handload:

North Georgia 8 point taken using a Super Redhawk in 454 Casull with a 335 grain Cast Performance/296 handload:

One of my most memorable deer hunts. A whole herd of bucks came through my stand chasing a doe and I was able to take two of them with my 41 Mag Contender using my 210 grain Remington JSP/296 handload:

Colorado elk taken with a .308 Encore with a Varget/150 grain Accubond handload:

North Georgia wild boar taken with a 209X50 Contender:

Alaskan brown bear taken at 100 yards using a .500 S&W and a 375 grain Barnes XPB/296 handload:

yorketransport · « **Reply #21 on:** May 27, 2013, 03:21:59 PM »

Not much big game, but I have a few smaller critters!

S&W 610

Ruger MkIII Hunter

Dan Wesson CCBT 10mm

I got 1 doe with a 35 Rem Contender, but I can't find the picture.

Andrew

Grumulkin · « **Reply #22 on:** May 27, 2013, 03:22:10 PM »

Blue Wildebeest taken with a Thompson/Center Encore handgun chambered in 444 Marlin.

Mike in Virginia · « **Reply #23 on:** May 27, 2013, 03:58:18 PM »

Darrell, you are very young to have accomplished so much with a handgun. Good shooting! Congratulations. Very few older guys are as experienced as you.

Grumulkin · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2013, 02:15:44 AM »

Taken from about 4 feet with a Glock 19 (9mm Parabellum for those that don't know).

Special Ed · « **Reply #25 on:** May 29, 2013, 05:03:52 AM »

This young-un wandered into my orchard, unfortunately for him I was sitting in the doorway, enjoying a cold one watching deer. The .223 Contender was within reach, 125 yard shot.

Ed

Grumulkin · « **Reply #26 on:** June 02, 2013, 01:47:38 AM »

A Bontebok taken with an Encore handgun chambered in 444 Marlin.

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #27 on:** June 03, 2013, 01:58:53 PM »

Quote from: Grumulkin on May 29, 2013, 02:15:44 AM

Taken from about 4 feet with a Glock 19 (9mm Parabellum for those that don't know).

For those of us that do not live in exotic places,
What is that?
Tazmanian Devil?
First Chin Chilla for your wife's coat?
Something nocternal that makes a lot of noise and got you out in your PJ's to quiet it?
Paris Hilton's Purse Rat?

cwlongshot · « **Reply #28 on:** June 03, 2013, 03:19:10 PM »

Possum in the hen house. PMR 30 22Mag

Small buck G20 10MM 175G ST hand load

I have a bunch on HI8 video that I need to have converted to digital....

CW

Grumulkin · « **Reply #29 on:** June 03, 2013, 03:50:32 PM »

A Vaal Rhebok taken with an Encore handgun chambered in 460 S&W Magnum. At least for a time, maybe still, SCI number two in the handgun category.