Dr T
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If you are deer hunting with a hot load in the rifle, please don't mix the ammo up with the SAA loads. You don't want to destroy a good handgun, and typing with one hand is no fun.
Absolutely suitable. Just keep your shots inside 150 yards and go hunt.
I use .45 caliber pistol bullets in my .50 Cal muzzleloader. A couple years ago, I put a 240-grain Remington hollow point through a Texas whitetail at a measured 142 yards. MV was only about 1800 fps. Two holes, perfect bullet performance and dead deer 50 yards away. I've now shot 7 deer with my muzzleloader using .45 cal pistol bullets. So that's what my comment was based on.Theodore Van Dyke, the author of Still Hunting, and once a guide for Teddy Roosevelt, loved the Winchester '73 in .44-40 with a lead alloy bullet out to 200 yards using open sights, on deer. For me that would be "pushing it a bit". I submit he didn't like the .45 Colt for the same purpose because Winchester didn't chamber their rifle in .45 Colt at that time.
Of course check your sights or your scope at various known distances, and know your personal limit for accuracy. For me it'd be 100 yards or less, and at that limit, I'd expect to not need to track the animal very far if at all.
LD
If you are deer hunting with a hot load in the rifle, please don't mix the ammo up with the SAA loads. You don't want to destroy a good handgun, and typing with one hand is no fun.
Some states are limited bylaw to straight walled ammo for their deer season....Just dont whine when the big buck is standing broadside at 155yds and your self imposed limit is 100.
If you're good with that, then go for it.
Wow. That was unnecessary. KevinLearn how to hunt from the ground and stalk your game.
Kevin
I had fully planned on using my Rossi 92 with a 24” octagon barrel for blackmail deer hunting in the thick timber of Oregon. I had worked up some fairly hot loads for taking deer out to 100 yards, but decided instead to try Hornady Leverevolution.45 Colt for accuracy and found it very accurate to 75 yards in my gun.
Anyway, I crashed my motorcycle and my injuries took me out of the picture for hunting for 2 years and I now live in SoCal so I never did get to find out how that would have worked out on deer.
I am confident that it would have worked great.
Yea, blacktail. I get it. Was it "autocorrect?" I hate that. Gets me too.
What's up with all the horse killing in this thread anyway? I'm calling BS on any round ever being designed/adopted because it can kill a horse. My buddies dad killed a horse back when we were in high school with a rock he threw at the horse that didn't want to get caught and ridden. .22 LR will do the job better than any rock..
Wow. That was unnecessary. Kevin
Well, what ever you say you will likely have to "spell it out" for them ...Yep, it was. I am really not sure what I will do if I ever meet the person who developed “auto-communist”