Revolver question

[mtnbkr]

one like this is what i did most of my deer hunting with   
got laughed at in wva in the mid 70's   less laughing each deer i hung up.

Nice piece. 

Nobody ever laughed when I took my Redhawk out, but the question was always "what are you going to do when you see a deer that's out of your range?".  My response was "the same thing I'd do if it were out of rifle range, hold the shot".

Chris

[BlueStarLizzard]

I kept .38 special in my m19. Forgot how heavy this thing is. When you run out of ammo you still have a decent club.

[kgbsquirrel]

No, I mean momentum, the ability of the bullet to penetrate through the deer.  If kinetic energy=momentum, then 125gr personal defense loads would penetrate better than slow, but heavy big bore calibers.  Momentum is mass times velocity (not velocity squared).  The point with momentum is that bullet weight has as much or more effect as velocity.

Some good info here if you're serious about handgun hunting: http://www.customsixguns.com/writings/common_sense_handgun_hunting.htm

Chris

Doh, completely off-base here with those. I seem to be misremembering a lot of things lately. And inertia, of course, is the resistance of a physical object to a change in velocity. Someone pass me the alzheimers pills. 

On the second part, I don't handgun hunt. I was just showing one of my favored loads.