Game & Fish West

LITTLE GUN, BIG POWER

A guide and I were sitting in a pop-up blind, not far from the Texas coastline. I was helping with a culling operation for whitetail deer. It was my job to do the shooting and the guide’s job to tell me what to shoot. I’d already taken two deer at a little over 100 yards with a rifle when several came out of the brush closer to the blind. Pointing, the guide said, “That one.”

I unholstered my 4 5/8-inch Ruger Single Seven revolver in .327 Fed. Mag. and said, “If you don’t care, I’ll use my handgun.”

The guide kind of grimaced, “I’m not sure that thirty-two is enough gun.”

Leveling the little revolver

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