Handguns in hunting season?
 

I am curious to know how many folks here carry a handgun hunting small game or deer. I like to carry my M686 .357 S&W or .41 Magnum Ruger SA when I hunt anything here in PA.

I carry those same handguns year-round when I run the tractors or cut back the dozen trails on the farm. The only PA restriction is on semi-auto handguns for hunting, so I use revolvers.

Who else carries a handgun hunting?

Adam

i have carryed a revolver but the most the time i carry my concealed peace as a finish peace.

In Co, I can shoot small game...grouse n rabbit....with a 357. To be leagl on big game, it's gotta be my 44 Mag! Harry is kinda
uncomfortable to carry! LOL
Dan

Dan,

I carry a handgun most days here on the farm. I like a certain favorite M1911A1 .45 and carry that afield. I have shot at a coyote or two and told them it came from a "wheel gun." So far, no complaints have been filed. LOL.

Adam

Ya gotta word play........illegal ....a sick bird.....
Dan

I carry a 4" Ruger GP100 .357 when hunting. Never had to use it yet but it sure does feel good having it on my hip

Handguns in hunting season?
 

Legal in Wyoming for certain 357 and larger. I never carry a handgun when I am hunting with a rifle. Just extra weight. But I never go "afield" without a gun and if I don't have a rifle I certainly will have a handgun.

I have used nothing but a handgun to hunt deer with ever since it became legal here in Oh. I`ve killed most of my deer with a .44 mag. revolver, but in the last few year I`ve killed afew with an Encore in .357 max. I started carring a Ruger .454 while walking, but have yet to shot it at a deer.

yes i use a revolver
 

along with a trusty long rifle , my choice in the revolver is a RAGING BULL 8 3/8" stainless in 454 casull , i shoot 260 grain partition loads out of it , rocks the house, Ihave taken deer out to 100 yardsthat have dropped like they were poleaxed when i had the scope on it just recently removed it after having twin cataract surgery, my rifles depends if i hunt a bean field or dense woods, power lines super long shotswhich i don't condone any over 300 yards but when necessary my 300 rem ultramag 180 grain swift scirroccos, anything else i play meeney, miney , moe with the 7 mm mag, .280 , or 30-06 or which ever one screams out and says take me today:D , i love em all and they all shhot well

which reminds me
 

anyone need a scope mount for a taurus Raging Bull 8 3/8 inch along with 2 scopes , ones a ncstar 4x the other a simmons4x that one has adented tube but seems ok give me a hollar

In Taxachuetts you cannot carry a hand gun hunting deer no way no how even if you have a conceal permit. Same goes for bow hunting.

I never carry one anyway. Ju st another hunk of weight. If my rifle or shotgun can't kill it then I'm in big troble anyway. I go light as possible.

with the crew you got running that state its funny they don't have you throwing baseballs , The Red Sox need all the help they can get:D, sorry thats the Yankee Fan in me , but at least you have the Celtics best there is bar none, on a serious note our state Pa isn't getting much better, the law has many grey areas in it for handguns and hunting , basically it says you can't carry a handgun in a car loaded unless you you have a concealed weapons permit, but the game law says you can't have a loaded weapon in a vehicle when you are hunting or going to hunt , figure out that bull , now the sportsman permit says you have the right to carry an unloaded weapon in your vehicle on your person, also the game law states a legal weapon for big games any manual operated or single shot firearm-center fire larger than 22 caliber except elk, so that means if i take my pistol unloaed in a pistol case in my car unloaded i can legally hunt with that pistol and not need a permit at all , what bullcrap, just another way for Ed Rendell and his anti Gun Activists putting the bite on Joe the Hunter here in Pa

With all the crap with hand cannons in this state you can pretty much hunt anything with them except deer. Believe it or not even bear which are becoming a problem.

I do hunt mostly coyotes with a handgun. I do have a Class A so loaded or unloaded in a vehicle isn't a problem. The laws are really getting weirder each year although our F&G department does the best in can with the demo rats that run this state.

With muzzleloaders you cannot use a breakopen type during the muzzleloading season but you can use that breakopen ml during the shotgun season. Go figure. I jsut don't understand that one.

Anyway go Red Sox

I now always carry a 4" Model 66 in 357 with stout reloads. I have carried a 10" TC in 357 Harrett, a 10" Merrill in 30-30, a 445 Max DW (to big and heavy) and on ocasion an old 6.5" flat top 44 Black Hawk. I do like the 66 in the cross draw rig under my jacket, it saves banging up the rifle with the hammer spur.
Best,
Ed

I have a 4" S&W M66 too and it's my usual concealed carry weapon. When afield I pretty much always have a gun but don't always carry a pistol. When camping (and when I do carry a pistol hunting) I usually have with me a good ol' Ruger BH in 45 LC carried cross draw, out of the way. I take it because I don't mind beating it up a little here and there...it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.http://www.huntchat.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Mike