“Tag: Handgun Hunting”

Sometimes a long-barreled firearm is called for when the shooter wishes to squeeze every little bit of ballistic performance out of a cartridge.

The .44 Smith & Wesson Special has had a virtual cult-like following for most of its 100-plus-year existence and became a favorite of many western lawmen and self-defense practitioners.

American Rifleman’s Brian Sheetz takes to the MC1911S Hunter, a long-slide 1911 variant chambered for 10 mm Auto.

The idea is to take a factory cartridge, insert said cartridge into single-shot handgun and make a one-shot kill at an ethical distance on a whitetail deer.

Is a handgun an essential piece of a big-game hunter’s kit or a couple pounds of redundant weight dragging down a hunter’s pants?

American Rifleman's Brian Sheetz reviews an optics-ready, 10 mm Auto thumper built around a M1911.

Ruger has announced new calibers and barrel lengths for some of its most popular models of revolvers.

Designed more than 100 years ago, does the stalwart .45 still have a place in the modern handgun market?

When Ruger introduced the .480 Ruger cartridge, they were aiming at a fairly narrow group of shooters—big game hunters.