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February 2nd, 2010 at 10:55 am
Good item. Thanks.
A short sight radius and “long distance” shooting takes a steady hand or a steady rest. But the .41’s and .44’s are more powerful and shoot flatter than many of the meat hunters “classic calibers” of the 19th and early 20th century. In fact, when you get right down to it, even the .357 does not give a lot away.
So handgun shots at up to a thousand feet are not “stretching the barrel,” they are stretching the marksman’s ability.
Which reminds me of the days when my buddies and I used to take our .22 “Owls Heads” and a sack of Campbell soup cans out for an evening’s fun. Oklahoma Power and Light set poles 300 feet apart, so we would line cans up on a fence, back off two telephone poles and let fly. We didn’t hit ’em all. But we scared heck out of ’em.
Stranger
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:59 pm
This particular gun was, I think, shooting the 6.5-284, which is a good bit more powerful than a standard handgun caliber.