BassFlats&Beyond
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As I sit here in a deer blind freezing my ass off, all kinds of thoughts run through my mind. The thought of handgun hunting came up. Mainly, is a 9mm enough gun to ethicaly take deer? Is it enough for bear protection? What type of loads work best? If hollow points don’t penetrate enough, would fmj or cast bullets do?
I know the typical woods calibers are .357 .44 mag and 10mm. With the data we have on handgun wounding in humans showing that there isn’t much difference between a hit from a 9 and a 357 mag, does that apply to 4 legged critters as well? The defensive community has accepted that knockdown power isn’t a thing in handguns, but the hunting community is slow to accept that change.
I know the typical woods calibers are .357 .44 mag and 10mm. With the data we have on handgun wounding in humans showing that there isn’t much difference between a hit from a 9 and a 357 mag, does that apply to 4 legged critters as well? The defensive community has accepted that knockdown power isn’t a thing in handguns, but the hunting community is slow to accept that change.