Pistols for stalking HD
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Grannysmith
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Yep
Yep solely for your own deer or for other HD too?
Not many people have experience using handguns before getting one.
You need to be really really good to achieve the sort of accuracy expected of a rifle at 100m with a pistol at 15-20m
Practise using your rifle at shorter distances and the advatages of a pistol are severly diminished. Vs disadvatages of having a pistol (weight, anotger thing to carry/forget, expense of pistol and ammo, landowner and public being uncomfortable, plod being reluctant about grant/renewal, possible target for criminals)
You need to be really really good to achieve the sort of accuracy expected of a rifle at 100m with a pistol at 15-20m
Practise using your rifle at shorter distances and the advatages of a pistol are severly diminished. Vs disadvatages of having a pistol (weight, anotger thing to carry/forget, expense of pistol and ammo, landowner and public being uncomfortable, plod being reluctant about grant/renewal, possible target for criminals)
For what purpose? Specifically following up deer you’ve shot with your rifle, or for other HD purposes as well?
Foxyboy43
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Hmmm. In my forty years of pistol shooting I have (thankfully) never even met someone foolish enough to even consider shooting a wounded/injured deer at more than a few feet away with a pistol. Preferably less - safety permitting. Even a large calibre pistol round is only quickly effective with proper placement - add stress (in both “parties“), adrenaline and inexperience to the mix and you will have a problem.
On the wider aspect of HD for deer with a pistol - and I am genuinely curious - under what circumstances would a pistol really be the only/best option?
On the wider aspect of HD for deer with a pistol - and I am genuinely curious - under what circumstances would a pistol really be the only/best option?
See the thread in legal issues buddyHmmm. In my forty years of pistol shooting I have (thankfully) never even met someone foolish enough to even consider shooting a wounded/injured deer at more than a few feet away with a pistol. Preferably less - safety permitting. Even a large calibre pistol round is only quickly effective with proper placement - add stress (in both “parties“), adrenaline and inexperience to the mix and you will have a problem.
On the wider aspect of HD for deer with a pistol - and I am genuinely curious - under what circumstances would a pistol really be the only/best option?
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Based on your current situation I’d say
This is exactly it K
For the vast majority of stalkers, I can't envisage that there would be any situation where a pistol would convey an advantage over a small, lightweight 410, other than the fact that the pistol would be small enough to carry at all times "just in case".
A cheap old 410 can be had for fifty quid, and if size really is an issue then you can chop the stock off at the pistol grip, and cut the barrel down to minimum legal length. If it's a folder, then so much the better - it would probably fit in your backpack after those simple modifications, so could be kept handy.
While I concede that there will be certain professional people for whom a pistol is an appropriate tool, in most cases I think the possession of a (largely unnecessary) pistol has more to do with bragging rights.
A cheap old 410 can be had for fifty quid, and if size really is an issue then you can chop the stock off at the pistol grip, and cut the barrel down to minimum legal length. If it's a folder, then so much the better - it would probably fit in your backpack after those simple modifications, so could be kept handy.
While I concede that there will be certain professional people for whom a pistol is an appropriate tool, in most cases I think the possession of a (largely unnecessary) pistol has more to do with bragging rights.
There can be only one handgun and chambering for HD:
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devon deer stalker
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Nope, an unnecessary added expense and weight to carry around.
I don't get involved in HD, and if for some reason I see the deer taking too long to expire it gets another one, job done.
I don't get involved in HD, and if for some reason I see the deer taking too long to expire it gets another one, job done.
Apparently this can’t be done, according to my RFD who is an ex FEO, a sect 2 firearm can’t be converted to sect 1, it becomes section 5 so such a conversion is illegal - it has to start life as a pistol.
I am thinking of a .410 pistol for around the cattle sheds on renewal as there’s been quite a lot of situations recently where one would have been handy.
Frank Homes
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You can only shorten a barrel of a shotgun to less than 24inches to repair it.
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