RE: [HOE] Hunting handguns -- was: Desert Eagle= ultimate wasteland gun

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

Grrk, my bad -- errata for my post:  both the Ruger revolver and the
semi-auto fired .30 carbine rifle rounds.

Jeff Y.


> I'm curious if anyone has done game stats for some of the hunting handguns
> that are available.  I've fired a Ruger that used .30 rifle ammo (seems
> small, but there's a LOT of power/powder behind that little bit o' .30 cal
> lead), a semi-auto that used .45-70 rifle rounds, and I've seen and read
> about .454 Casull and other hugely powerful revolvers.  With scopes, these
> revolvers replace rifles for some hunters today.  How much damage
> would they
> do against a rad zombie?