RE: .45acp powerful enough for field duty in southeast?
I like that buffalo bore ammo, thats cool they are trying to develop a powder to reduce muzzle flash. Thats the only real concern I had with the .357 mag, but with a 6" barrel and some of that buffalo bore for defense against the 2 legged ones ought to work well. For field defense I will probably use something in the 158gr area for better penetration.
I noticed they got almost 1400fps from a 2" barrel, i'm wondering what it does out of 4 inches more barrel. I bet it does very well out of a lever action rifle too!
Sounds like a nice Ruger Gp100 in 6" stainless is in my very near future.