Garret Hammerhead Cartridges

[double0757]

I recently came across, through this forum, on Garret Hammerhead cartridges. I did a search here and in hunting forum to see any fields reports, but no information came up. My questions are. Do you have any experience with this cartridge, 44Mag 310gr or 310gr for 349pd or the 330gr(+P) for the Ruger. How they shoot (accuracy, recoil, muzzle blast, noise). If you have actual crono out of your gun, how fast? Have you hunted with it and what? Are they worth the money? Thanks in advance.
Double O

 

[G. Glock]

I'd be interested in this, as well. I just purchased the Ruger Alaskan in .44 Mag. Don't want to break my wrist, but I'm anxious to try some of the nuclear Garrett Cartridges myself. One reason I opted for the .44 instead of the .454 was I knew that Garrett could bring it up to about the same lethality, or at least as powerful as anything I want to shoot that doesn't have a shoulder stock, as the .454, and I always have a few thousand .44 mags and .44 specials lying around the reloading room.

Never know when a big brown griz will wander in out of the woods here in the Nashville area! ;-)

 

[Guns_and_Labs]

I've used both the .44Mag and the .45-70 Garrett cartridges. Excellent choices, but NOT for the faint of hear or weak of wrist.

The .44Mag 310 gr Hammerhead load in my 629 Hunter chrono'd within a couple of fps of the label claim, and will kill wild boar DRN (dead right now). I tried it once in my 329 -- I'll never try that again.

The .45-70 load I use (420 gr Hammerhead) in a Marlin rifle when bear hunting. I've used it quite a few times hunting. Best example, though: it stopped a big, charging male that had just shrugged off a .338 from another hunter. Destroyed the shoulder and stopped him, and the second shot in the head finished him.

 

[usmccpl]

Well I havent cronoed the Garrett loads but I can give you proformance on the 330 hammerheads in a Ruger. My Redhawk is stoked with them all the time. At 200 yards I aim about 6 inches high and can hit clay targets.I have used it to bring down ferel dogs and half wild cattle(1500 lbs bull chargingat 50 yards stopped dead with one shot) They are without the best loads I have fired.





one shot one kill

 

[double0757]

Thanks for all the information. I think I'm going to buy some and try them out myself. I'm also going to be shooting the 310Gr light for the 349pd 4", hope I don't break my wrist .

Double O