[Jeff Higgins]

Kind of the "rule of thumb" that I've seen promoted time and again everywhere from the hunting and shooting press to real life guides (both here and abroad) is the "paper plate" standard, for lack of a better term. Whatever it is you are shooting, the maximum range at which you can place each and every shot on a paper plate from a field position is about as far as you should be shooting at a game animal. That goes for handguns, rifles, whatever. Seems like a pretty good standard. Any suitable hunting revolver will certainly kill at ranges far beyond that, but it's still up to us to put it in the right spot.