Phil Bourjaily My First Handgun DeerДЄ few years ago I went handgun hunting for the first time ever. вЂ“вЂ“Layne Simpson Phil Bourjaily with his first successful handgun hunt. The additional weight also reduces recoil. The Encore comes with fully adjustable sights, but equipping it with a scope extends the shooterвЂ™s range considerably. 243 Winchester in the 15-inch barrel is big enough medicine for deer, and much more comfortable to shoot. 308 Winchester are hard to beat, but they do churn up a bit of recoil. Like the Contender, barrels in different calibers are easily interchanged, making it an extremely versatile handgun.ДЄll things considered, the. I prefer the SSK Industries Contender because it is trimmer and about a pound lighter, but the stronger action of the Encore allows it to handle more powerful rifle cartridges such as the.

30-06 Barrel Lengths: **12 or 15 inches ** Sights: Fully adjustable open sights/scope mount Type: Single shot, tip-up action MSRP: $967 Chamberings. Thompson/Center Encore Thompson/Center Encore Field & Stream Online Editors

It requires the drilling and tapping of two holes in the top of the barrel rib by a gunsmith, but is worth the additional cost. For attaching a scope on the Raging Bull, I highly recommend the mount from Jack Weigand. 44 Magnum in this particular gun, because in addition to being more comfortable to shoot than the. 454 Casull chambering really jumps around when fired, so the 8-3/8 inch barrel is the best choice for that caliber. I'll keep the scopes on the Contenders, that are chambered in rifle cartridges, but will likely pull off the scopes on guns like the 30 carbine Blackhawk pictured, not because of the quality of the mounts, but because the gun is likely to be used at less than 100 yards, & not at targets the size of ground squirrels.The. I've been pulling the scopes off alot of them that are truely not long range cartridges. This has got me rethinking how lot of my handguns are set up. this coupled with switching areas I deer hunt in ( I've been handgun hunting for several years ) my wife's cousin has some very good hunting land, closer to where we live, but it has public land on 3 sides, & the deer were not as relaxed as I'm used to from hunting 'up north' so I found getting a shot even with a scope dialed down to 2X difficult, both because the deer were much closer, because of the thicker cover, & moving around alot more, because of the public hunting pressure on 3 sides this training, coupled with more expirience over the years seems to have transfered ( somewhat ) to the handguns, as I seem to be able to shoot them better without scopes lately as well. a while back I took an Appleseed rifle training course & learned to better shoot iron sights on rifles. There was a time when I 1st started shooting handguns ( I got a late start ) that I scoped almost all of mine. I never had any issues with either of those B Square mounts ( I also have several on some semi autos as well, & one of their drill mounts on a Colt 45 auto )

I removed the scope & mount when I swapped the 6' barrel off & added a custom snubbie barrel, turning the gun into a defensive woods carry revolver similar o the Ruger Alaskan. I think my other ( revolver ) B Square no drill mount was on a Dan Wesson 44 Mag, that I took off many years ago now.

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