Handguns in hunting season?

[Adam Helmer]

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

[wrenchman]

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

[Dan Morris]

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

[Adam Helmer]

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

[Dan Morris]

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

[Tater]

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

[Larryjk]

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.

[Catfish]

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.

[RagingBullPa]

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 , i love em all and they all shhot well

[RagingBullPa]

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

[buckhunter]

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.

[RagingBullPa]

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, 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

[buckhunter]

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

[Rapier]

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

[MtnMike2]

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