Actually a 44 mag. .357, .41, 44, would all do the job quite well.
Yes, they sure would. I have (from new) a 1975 Colt Trooper MKIII .357 Mag, 6" barrel. It's a canon. I bought it day after I was robbed and shot, on 7/14/75, in West Palm Beach, as I and my fiance were leaving a legendary steak house, Tropical Acres. I was in South Miami hospital hospital trauma center overnight.
.32cal bullet missed all organs/nerves/arteries/veins/bones etc, and stopped inside pelvis, right at lower spine. Trauma doc said, "You're the luckies SOB I've ever seen in 20yrs of running trauma centers, all over the US".,
