Originally Posted by
Blackelk
Has taken deer, elk, black bear, and mountain lion with at 41mag. It's well capable of doing it all. I'd say anything above a 41mag would be ideal. 44mag would be the best all around choice. But I love my 41's. Very sweet hunting round.
I gotta second the .41 Mag. I have had a reasonable amount of experience with nearly all of the previously mentioned cartridges. The .44 Mag and up guns can be recoil abusers, particularly without proper fitting grips. The .41 does not, in my opinion carry near that kind of penalty with it. I feel the .357 is just a little on the light side for your purposes. I can even get my wife to shoot the Blackhawk in .41 Mag, but she wants no part of my .44.
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