When I was a young teenager and magnum handguns were first coming out
strong, we would never think of shooting at 25' or 50'. We just bought Ruger
SBH 44mags. We thought the purpose of them was long range. We sure weren't
world class shooters by any means but we shot 50yds to 100yds. Anything less
was for our 22s. Actually groundhogs were our target shooting. To this day I have little use for a handgun that doesn't have the ability to shoot accurately
at 50yds. I think a lot of people who have limited experience with handguns
have never been around full blown target guns. I have had a lot of people freak
out just from seeing a mundane shot, as busting a gallon jug at 50yds. There are still a lot of people that don't realize what these target guns will do. They
will never know because they aren't going to spend the big bucks to buy one.
I saw a guy with a K32 & optic set at bench and bust clay pigeons on after the
other at 100yds. The 32 is capable of doing it if you have the gun and skill to
do it.