Your handicap with a revolver isn’t accuracy. Frankly, what some of you guys can do with a wheel gun is amazing. Your real handicap is power. You simply can’t pack the power of
even a modest rifle like a .375 into a wheelgun, and I doubt anyone on this forum would tout a .375 as a stopping caliber.
As far as accurate, fast shooting with a bolt gun chambered in an appropriate caliber, I can assure from experience that this is possible and effective.
No one is mentioning using a revolver as a main #1 primary weapon in pursuit of a wounded DG...
For me personally, I would prefer a double barrel rifle in 577 Nitro Express in my hands in pursuit of wounded DG...
What is really dumbfounding some, is those who do not want any revolver on them as a backup sidearm in case their rifle malfunctions and they're on the ground on their knees, back or side...
Hypothetical situation below...
You're hunting DG, a cape buffalo or lion. The animal is presenting you a quartering shot, you take the shot and it misses the heart/lung zone and now it's wounded and takes off into the thick brush. You take a second shot as it's running away and it's a miss. You wait for a while and then you and your armed group go in pursuit as the Ph and guide is ahead of you. You're walking through thick brush and trees and it charges at a close distance, you fire your bolt-action rifle for the third time and it's a miss and it's coming for you...
You can either try to rack the bolt again and fire off another shot but, what if you forgot to reload and you're out of ammo or you can't rack that bolt in time like in videos above. Under duress in high stress situations many people have forgotten to reload. You can take out the revolver in a chest holster and shoot or you don't have a backup revolver and have to rely on others to save you.
If you're on the ground in a awkward position is where the handgun is more maneuverable and quicker and only requires one hand. And, a S&W 500 or 500 Linebaugh with solid brass monolithic is what I want in my hands if my rifle malfunctions, I can't work the bolt in time or I forgot to reload.
Bear guides and hunters in Alaska, most of them have sidearms as a backup in brown bear country and many go out there by themselves alone like Phil Shoemaker who's pursued wounded coastal brown bears by himself, not with a team. It's almost mandatory to have a sidearm on them. But, there's something strange with many African hunters where they're allergic to sidearms and it violates their made up theology they created in their heads. It's as if Africa is this romanticized place where you have to be Teddy Roosevelt with just a rifle or something like that. Or, they think that they're fast enough with their rifle but, they're not as fast as those animals. Or, because they don't have to pursue DG by themselves alone, they got a team around them.
Hunters in North America, not all but some especially in Alaska, because of their allowed independence where they can hunt alone they know the importance of a sidearm as a backup. They also don't cry and whine about how heavy their sidearm is when they're out there for days hiking through mountains and forests by themselves carrying all their gear, backpacks by themselves. They also pack all that meat with them with their rifle and sidearm on them all by themselves alone in the middle of no where.
Some of these African hunters here truly think a S&W 500 or 500 Linebaugh solid brass monolithic will just bounce off DG and have no effect and the animal won't even flinch or feel anything. Or simply, if their rifle fails, their Ph and guides will take care of the mess for them.
I'd like to see African hunters pursue DG alone by themselves and then see what they bring as weapons.
