Smooth bore handgun hunting?

[engravertom]

Anyone using smoothbore handguns for small game hunting? Any success using shot at any decent range? Anyone using large caliber smoothbore handguns for hunting deer?

Thanks for any input!

Tom

 

[bigbore442001]

Hmm. I shot one pheasant at a club shoot with a 16" 20 guage single shot handgun.

I did some range testing and it seemed to have an effective range of 25 yards. I forgot the load but I did do in the pheasant.

 

[engravertom]

Thanks for the reply.

My next purchase will be a smoothbore handgun or fowler. Either one will be fun to play with. The handgun might be cool for packing around while playing in the woods.

Thanks again,

Tom