Thanks fellers,
I dont often get much computer time for posting stuff, so its nice to share when I can. I know that I surely do enjoy everybody's pics and posts...
Yep, they are tiny cartridges, especially compared to most modern sporting rounds, and yet I know lots of avid handgun hunters that are totally successful with similar ballistics.
I saw the question about hand gunning for black bears on another forum and totally agree with this answer:
Oldtime black bear hunters say that any load that throws at least a 200-grain or bigger solid bullet at 1000 fps or more will take any bear in the woods. By that standard a good heavy-power . 44 Special or . 45 Colt handload in the right gun should work fine and has.
So I figure the 210 grain boolet at 1100fps, is at least as effective....
As for buffalo... even though William F. Cody considered the Henry, as well as the "improved Winchester 44 CF(1873)" as "pop guns" for buffalo, compared to the Spencer and especially his 2nd Allin model Springfield 50-70, the diminutive Henry round can get the job done. Not recommended for the novice .... here's a pic of my son Colton about this time last year. The 44 HCF boolet penetrated the thick hide, broke a rib, and punched a finger size hole through the heart and both lungs and was wedged between the ribs on the off side.
Again, not a recommendation as a buffalo gun, but if'n its all you had- just aim carefully...
BG