There is a very old saying, "handguns are handguns, and rifles are rifles" You will never hold a pistol for two shots, that will deliver 12,000ft-lbs of energy on a target a mile away, like you can get from some high-powered rifles. Pistols are a low-power emergency tool.
They start out at the .25ACP which will moderately annoy a pigeon.
You go all the way up to the .45ACP in guns in common use, that will put a serious hurt on a man.
Then you get into a gray area of "well, some lower-powered rifles aren't as powerful as these pistol rounds" like the .44 Magnum.
Then you jump a few steps and get a Wild West Springfield XD Tactical conversion kit for the .460 Rowland cartridge. 14 rounds of nearly-a-thousand-foot-pounds-each Major class pistol goodness.
Shoot it once, and you'll probably say "goodness" about the recoil. Down a brown bear with a few of them, and you'll be glad you paid the extra $350 (plus ammunition) to get a regular pistol-sized magnum-power pistol.
It's almost enough to make me want an XD. Hat tip to The Firearm Blog.
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