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Im looking to purchase a Taurus Silhouette revolver which will be used for squirrels and groundhogs and anything in between. These revolvers are available in the following calibers...
.22 LR
.22 Magnum
.17 HMR
.218 Bee
.357 Magnum
.44 Magnum
454 Casull
The last three cartridges are much larger than I need (I already have a raging bull chambered in .44 Magnum) so out of the first four what would you folks recommend.
I had looked into the raging hornet, but it costs ~$300 more than the silhouette. How does the .218 bee compare to the .22 magnum? Would the .218 bee be suitable for 100 yards or so? I keep hearing about this new .17 HMR thats supposed to be pretty good for varminting. Any opinions on that?
If it were me, I' d get the .17HMR, just because of what I' ve seen from it. Like others have said, the .22WMR in a revolver is about equal in power to a .22lr pistol (depending on load naturally), the .17HMR isn' t terribly more powerful, but it' s faster/more accurate, I' ve seen men hunt coyotes with 6" bbl .17HMR pocket pistols, the whole thing is only as long as your hand...and I watched them drop yotes at impressive ranges, over 50yrds in many cases (one or two approaching 100yrds).
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there are 4 .17hmr pistols on the market now. tarus tracker with a 6" barrel, tarus silhouette with a 12" barrel, ruger single 6 with a 6" barrel, and heratige rough rider with a 6" barrel. plus contender/encore has some pistol barrels too. i would LOVE to play with the silhouette! the .17 has about 2550 ftlbs. from a rifle barrel, so the pistols would be less, but i' m sure it would still pack a punch!!
I don' t know who made the ' pocket pistols' that I mentioned above, but they aren' t any of the ' four pistols available' that t-roy mentioned, I think he meant that there are four full-sized pistols available. The single six is a great deal too, but I just have problems holding a full sized gun with a round that small in it, I had a custom single ' nine' once, a single six that was converted to a 9rnd .22lr, just never could take it serious as a gun, if it would have been in .17HMR, then I' d have hung on to it!
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Need help selecting cartridge for small game
