Around 1983 I decided I needed a handgun for deer and bear hunting, and since my dad already had dies, powder, primers and bullet mould the logical choice was .41 Magnum. The first .41 was a blue 57 with 8 3/8" barrel followed by a long tube nickel 57. I mounted a Bushnell Phantom scope on the blue revolver for those long range shots.
My handgun big game hunting career never did amount to anything more than a few walks in the woods. The year we drew a bear permit, we went up to northern MN totally unprepared for actually hunting bear. It was about dusk when we canoed out to what we thought was a nice spot to set up camp for the night. The next morning when we were packing up the tent we found out we spent the night about 10 yards from somebody's bait station. Oops! Never did see a bear.





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