your obviously correct, but I'm always amazed at the guys that think,..hell, I shot and they ran as if I missed,
I must of missed ...But the sights looked good???
well next time I better get closer.... never thinking the hog they shot that ran off 40-60 yards as if untouched,
was now dead and 30 feet behind a palmetto brush screen.
you may not always get a reaction you recognize as a good hit,
but if you fire a cartridge and the sights looked go you owe the animal,
the respect too follow and look for evidence, handguns are 100% lethal with good shot placement,
and in many cases will significantly out penetrate rifles,
but they won,t always deliver the shock, or anchor the game as rapidly.
the guy I was hunting with had hunted for decades but always with a 12 ga slug gun
hand-gunning was something new, I had to get across that shot placement was more critical,
and that it was not at all uncommon for a hard cast bullet to pass through one hog,
and punch through or deeply into a second directly behind it.
thus tracking after a shot was mandatory.
he thoroughly enjoyed the hunt and I watched carefully,
he was rather amazed at the fact I watched where the hogs ran,
and found a couple he shot , that he thought he missed.
theres a learning curve in every endeavor, he was impressed,
and enjoyed the hunt, in fact he offered several times to buy the revolver,
I suggested he visit the local gun store and might want to look at a 357 mag, 41 or 44 mag with a 7.5"-8.375" barrel
he was very impressed with my 686 S&W