How many different handgun types do you hunt and or compete with?

[xphunter]

What do you use?
Pictures would be awesome!
List the kind of hunting or competing you do with different types of handguns.

Revolver: Brand, model, and chambering (iron or optic-list the optic)
Semi-Auto: Brand, model, and chambering (iron or optic-list the optic)
Single-Shot: Brand, model, and chambering (iron or optic-list the optic)
AR-Pistol types: model, and chambering (iron or optic-list the optic)
Bolt action repeaters (Ex. Savage Striker, Black Widow, etc...) model, and chambering (iron or optic-list the optic).

 

[.38 Special]

You're gonna get some long posts!

I don't compete any more, but here are some of my old guns.



This is a 686 set up for Bianchi Cup. Nylon plate under the grip for prone shooting, barricade wings and grip tape on the aftermarket barrel, and a windage adjustable base for moving targets. The dot sight is a cheapo replacement for the one I actually competed with, as it ended up on another gun.



Here is my Model 41, with grips made to my measure. I wasn't especially good at Bullseye, but learned a lot.

Most of my revolvers have been used for hunting. Here are a few.



Pretty much stock. The single action trigger is the usual S&W perfection, and the gun is more accurate than I am. I've been hand polishing the cylinder in my spare time, to give the animals a fighting chance.



This Bisley Blackhawk Hunter in .44 Magnum is really my only "dedicated" hunting revolver. Leupold 4x scope, trigger job, fire lapped. Here in California we no longer are allowed to use lead bullets for hunting, so this one is used exclusively with 225 grain Barnes XPB, which while terrifically expensive, do work quite well.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I carry a hand gun as a side arm hunting. Usually my Ruger SBH. And my 10mm 1911. SBH is the top one in the pic. The 10mm is in my avatar. I lost the big pic. Probably deleted it along the way.

 

[xphunter]

You're gonna get some long posts!

I thought that was the whole point...

 

[Ru4real]

I compete with a 45 ACP

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I shoot clay pigeons at 100 yards off hand with this one in 45 Colt

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And these are tough as nails. The “cleaning optional” models.

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[Seedy Character]

Cowboy Action or Hunting
Ruger Blackhawk, factory sights
.22 LR
.22 WMRF
.30 Carbine
.357 Mag
.41 Mag
.44 Mag
Ruger Vaquero
.45 Colt / .45 ACP

Auto Ordinance 1911 .45ACP
Colt ACE 1911 .22LR times 2

 

[cfullgraf]

When I shot IHMSA handgun silhouette back in the early 1980's, T/C Contender with a Super 14 chambered in 7mm Int. Rimmed in Unlimited
T/C Contender 10" barrel chambered in 357 Magnum in Production and Standing
S&W Model 19, 6" barrel, in Revolver and Standing.

I shot a little Second Chance Bowling Pin back in the early 1980's with a 1911 Government Model chambered in 45 ACP.

 

[black mamba]

I've taken whitetails with each of the following:

TC Encore with Bullberry 10" 44 magnum barrel and Leupold 2x LER scope


S&W model 629 Classic 6½" barrel 44 magnum and UltraDot 30 red dot


Magnum Research BFR 5" barrel 454 Casull and UltraDot 30 red dot


I've also taken rabbits and squirrels with .357 revolvers and .22 semi-autos.

 

[FL-NC]

Real easy- Glock. 34 and 17 for competition, and 23 or 21 for hunting sidearm.

 

[Bronco72]

All of them ! Every time I shoot I am competing with myself

 

[xphunter]

Real easy- Glock. 34 and 17 for competition, and 23 or 21 for hunting sidearm.

All iron sights?

 

[Coyote3855]

I used a pair of Ruger Vaqueros in .45 Colt for Cowboy Action competition. Springfield Armory 1911A1 in .45 ACP and Caspian 2011 in .40 S&W for USPSA matches.

 

[FL-NC]

All iron sights?

All tritium night sights, except for the 34 which has WOTG fiber optic in front.

 

[bangswitch]

I haven't competed seriously in many years, what I do now are "fun shoot" types of competition, competing mainly against myself. I shot PPC back in the late 1970's early 1980's, used a 4" M66 in Service revolver class. I no longer have that gun (darn it). I've shot some IDPA matches, used a .40S&W Ruger SR40C because it is my primary CC gun and I wanted to get good with it. I've shot a few CQB matches with my 300BLK M4, and a few 300 yard CMP matches at our club with a M1A. I wouldn't call it a "competition" except to say it is a challenge to do, but I've shot my 6.5 Grendel AR at 1000+ yards, and hit steel more than half my shots. That is a win for me, at least.
M19-3, subbing for the M66 I used to have:

The SR40c:

The M4 300BLK:

The M1A (it now wears a scope)

And last, but not least, the Grendel:

 

[Trey Veston]

G35 for GSSF. Also shoot a G23 or a G19.



My Uberti 1885 Winchester High Wall in .45-70 govt. used in BPCR matches down in Arizona. Haven't shot in a match in years since I'd have to drive 300 miles and stay in hotels up here.

 

[PapaG]

Not much competing lately but in the sixties and seventies it was a converted Remington RB in 45-70, A percussion rifle, a flint lock rifle, and a couple ml pistols and shotguns, all of which I built. After that, bowling pin matches with a 6" 617, A 6" 686, and a 5" 625. 2000-2015, 10-22 and CZ for fifty meter and mini buffalo matches. Most of the guns have gone down the road. Shoot trap in three leagues now.

 

[borrowedtime69]

I've mostly used my 2 Ruger MKII's for small game, one that I foolishly sold was a 22/45 with 6 7/8" slab side bbl with Simmons 4X pistol scope. I still have my MKII 22/45 4" bbl with irons only.

Also I have hunted with my Ruger Charger with the scope previously mentioned.

I also take my Glock 48 when I hunt coyote 1. Incase a bear shows up when calling in the mountains and 2. Also I use it if one sneaks up close and is moving quick. I know some guys carry a rifle & shotgun but I don't have that much energy.