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i am looking at buying a handgun sometime in the next couple months to carry with me while i am out hiking/scouting and during bow season this year. just trying to get peoples opinions on which direction i should go. looking to have it for protection against bear/cougar in case i need it mainly.
How do you screw up something as simple as cocking a hammer and pulling the trigger?? Quickdraw?
My experience with pistols is limited however I will give you this advice. If you can shoot the gun (or same model) before you buy it that will really help.This sounds like stupid advice - I'm not trying to be derogatory its just that I bought a pistol once and figured out that I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it... some pistols I shoot well others not.. I can't explain it. But in the end bullet placement is what really matters.
This is and easy one In the field-for me hands down Glock G20(15 rounds 10mm)everywhere else- 357 LCR
40 years of packing a pistol brought me full circle, starting out with a Ruger Flattop, then on to dozens and dozens of Smiths, 1911's, Colts, Freedom Arms, many that I've forgotten and then back to a Ruger Flattop. It is tough, really tough, to go wrong with a .44 Flattop whether an old 3 screw model or the new .44 specials. My family ate thousands of pounds of deer and elk steaks brought home with my old Flattops.