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Snatched the rifle from a client many a time to sort a cock up!
Pistols for stalking HD
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Dunwaters
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That depends, if you walk up to a down but not out deer a tap into the atlas joint sorts it out.
If the guy with the rifle has messed up at anything more than a few yards then the power of prayer will be of more use to you than the pistol, quietly relieve them of the long gun and go to it yourself.
DevonRifle
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Now the power of prayer; that’s another level!
alberta boy
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I've shot a few ........ it is . Potentially the most useless handgun I've ever used . Cool , but pointless .
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Foxyboy43
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Interesting aspiration and sounds like great fun.
Speaking from a land not that far away where handguns are still very much legal, not many are Elmar Keith so in reality your chances of hitting a rabbit with a pistol never mind a magnum in a hunting situation are pretty low. Indeed the trajectory of a low-powered pistol round is such that you can watch it "rainbowing" over a twenty metre range! Even in controlled range conditions actually hitting something that small at 20 metres for the average pistol shooter would be pretty difficult never mind a head shot!
Having married an Englishwoman we quite often have visitors over and frequently they ask to try pistol shooting - pretty much expecting lots of "bullseyes" at their first go. Sadly Holywood and reality are a million miles apart and many rounds later they go home - sadder but wiser...........
Still sounds like fun though but you missed the crossed bandeloros!
Smellydog
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Well I must have some Keith blood in me then because pre 96 I use to chip pebbles out of the berm with a 44 mag. Shoot 2" group with a 45acp colt and cut strings with a buckmark.Interesting aspiration and sounds like great fun.
Speaking from a land not that far away where handguns are still very much legal, not many are Elmar Keith so in reality your chances of hitting a rabbit with a pistol never mind a magnum in a hunting situation are pretty low. Indeed the trajectory of a low-powered pistol round is such that you can watch it "rainbowing" over a twenty metre range! Even in controlled range conditions actually hitting something that small at 20 metres for the average pistol shooter would be pretty difficult never mind a head shot!
Having married an Englishwoman we quite often have visitors over and frequently they ask to try pistol shooting - pretty much expecting lots of "bullseyes" at their first go. Sadly Holywood and reality are a million miles apart and many rounds later they go home - sadder but wiser...........
Still sounds like fun though but you missed the crossed bandeloros!
The only hand guns I have hunted with are air pistols and been successful. Just got to get close.
If our American cousins can do so can others.
Put it this way, it's easier than a catapult sling shot thingie!
I guess there are those that blat away with them and those that try to master them.
I remember some saying how useless muzzloaders are to me too
. They were wrong too!
no not really. Plenty have them to feel the need for one.
Well if in your world 2 out of 60, or less than 1%, equates to plenty then yes, you’re right!!
Feel free to post one but if you keep changing the question it doesn’t mean you’ll get the answer you want.
The FACT is, most people who stalk deer don’t feel they need a pistol for HD.
A close friend went through all the rigamarole of getting a pistol for HD, but backed out at the last minute due to the realisation of what you subject yourself too.
I really don't see the requirement for one , but I'm always ready to learn and be proven wrong.
I really don't see the requirement for one , but I'm always ready to learn and be proven wrong.
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He was approved, but told the conditions, alarms etc and decided it wasn't worth the aggro.
He managed 19 further years as a full time deer manager in Argyll without one.
Jon P
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I have a pistol for HD for work purposes not conditioned for stalking . However I did find a fallow fawn hung in a fence last Sunday, stuck fast by its fetlock , leg snapped in two other places, busy road to one side of me and ground hard as iron, fawn was sat quite quiet , options are use the 30.06 or knife, I decided on the knife for health and safety grounds, TBH the noise the poor thing made when I grabbed hold off it was quite disturbing, I am used to dealing with animals in distress in work so not new to me. If I had of had a smaller calibre I would say the fawn would off had a slightly less stressful day end to it short life as I could of dealt with it from 12 inches away. However this is a rare occurrence I have come across this .
Grannysmith
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In connection with animal husbandry
Grannysmith
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Which includes stalking both privately and commercially
But also livestock?
Grannysmith
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Yes livestock is important
Which mine covers
Which mine covers
So third category then, thanks for clarifying
Thomas Gordon
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Does any one with a Pistol feel it benefits them or is it purely just to have one? I cant see how it would be more efficient/practical using one over your rifle? Another bit of kit to carry ....
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