REDHAWK! REDHAWK! REDHAWK!
For all your stated uses there is no finer gun than the Ruger Redhawk. Get a nice set of grips (the factory are crap) and a set of wolf springs to help with the action and you are goood to go. You have one of the strongest factory DA 45 caliber revolvers in which you can use everything from cowboy loads (250 grain bullet @ 800 fps) to buffalo bore +P hunting loads (325 grain JHP at 1400 fps). And every load inbetween! This sixgun will do it all for you. Perhaps at a future date you could obtain the 450 taurus 45 caliber snubbie. With this one stick to cowboy factory loads or handsloads (I like a 225 grain full wadcutter at 850 fps. It hits mucho hard and cuts a full caliber whole.) But till then the Redhawk will work in this capicity as well. Go with the Redhawk you won't be sorry.
Also trhe redhawk can be had for as low as $300 to factory retail (about $550 I think) the Colts are going for close to $1000 I hear these days It just ain't worth it. And the redhawk is just plain a stronger gun in ALL ways.
For all your stated uses there is no finer gun than the Ruger Redhawk. Get a nice set of grips (the factory are crap) and a set of wolf springs to help with the action and you are goood to go. You have one of the strongest factory DA 45 caliber revolvers in which you can use everything from cowboy loads (250 grain bullet @ 800 fps) to buffalo bore +P hunting loads (325 grain JHP at 1400 fps). And every load inbetween! This sixgun will do it all for you. Perhaps at a future date you could obtain the 450 taurus 45 caliber snubbie. With this one stick to cowboy factory loads or handsloads (I like a 225 grain full wadcutter at 850 fps. It hits mucho hard and cuts a full caliber whole.) But till then the Redhawk will work in this capicity as well. Go with the Redhawk you won't be sorry.
Also trhe redhawk can be had for as low as $300 to factory retail (about $550 I think) the Colts are going for close to $1000 I hear these days It just ain't worth it. And the redhawk is just plain a stronger gun in ALL ways.