Deer Hunting with a .45 Filly Ruger Blackhawk

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Deer Hunting with a .45 Colt Ruger Blackhawk

I'm guessing the 200gr JHPs from Corbon would do nicely in my Ruger Blackhawk for these smallish California blacktails. The areas I'm considering are heavy timber and castor so the shots would exist inside fifty yards with iron sights.

I've never capped one off in a handgun earlier just I understand they can seize with teeth at both ends.

Of grade, I might just go pick up a used Blackhawk Hunter in .44 Mag and put a 2x scope on it. That stainless steel model is absolutely lovely.

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Re: Deer Hunting with a .45 Colt Ruger Blackhawk

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The standard 250 grain bandage bullet at 800-850 fps. in the .45 Colt is all that is needed for Deer at that distance. The standard factory 240 gr. .44 mag. Load is more than plenty for whatsoever Deer. IMHO

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Chuck 100 yd wrote:The standard 250 grain cast bullet at 800-850 fps. in the .45 Colt is all that is needed for Deer at that distance. The standard mill 240 gr. .44 magazine. Load is more than enough for whatever Deer. IMHO

Good to know, Chuck. Thanks. I'll practice some more inquiry on this.

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I have a .45 Bisley blackhawk that I plan to use this yr. I program to load for it, but in the mean fourth dimension, I bought two boxes of HSM+P ammo that push a 325 gr wide atomic number 82 bullet quite smartly, though I've read that its non as hot as the buffalo diameter stuff.
Earlier someone yells at me, I know that loads this stout aren't required for deer, but at $xl per fifty rounds, they are the cheapest not cowboy action stuff out in that location, and they are loaded with dainty starline contumely that I can reload. Plus, they should anchor deer with potency. I'yard looking frontward to trying it out.

Withal, I accept killed two deer with a ruger blackhawk in .41 mag (that I sold to buy the .45). I killed one deer with a 210 grain rem. flat nose that I loaded over H110 to around possibly 1300 fps? The second deer was with the winchester platnum hollow points which are 240 grain at around 1250fps.

The ruger .45 is way more than plenty for deer, though the load you mentioned seems like a calorie-free bullet weight for the .45 colt. Perhaps that is a personal protection round? Usually jacketed .45s are 250-300 gr. so lead stuff upwards to 335 gr. or peradventure more.

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Killed a caribou with my Vaquero and a 300 gr. something or other, peradventure HSM. No need fora .44 magazine if y'all take the .45 Filly in a Ruger, unless you lot really desire the scope. I'g not into scopes on a pistol, then my leaning is ever toward the more traditional pistols.

Oh, and on the HSM ammo:
https://762precision.wordpress.com/2012 ... m-ammo-xiv/

Later that I did some research and establish records of several police section ARs that had catastrophic failures firing HSM ammo, plus reports of some other firearms.

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.45 Colt or ACP tend to turn off deer rather well if you can place them. I prefer the .45 Colt Blackhawk, either of these, for anything in the woods.

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My favorite meat gun in Alaska was a 44 magazine SBH. I loaded a obviously base 325gr cast bullet over W296 and killed lots of deer with it. It was chronoed by someone who poo-pooed the 1100+ velocity and assured me that information technology wouldn't piece of work unless I upped it to 1400 fps, which would likely be an overpressure round.

I never lost a deer with that load, and I but ever recovered ane bullet. That one penetrated the skull and and so toboganed along the spine until information technology stopped. It was an absolutely reliable meat maker.

Your 45 tin can easily duplicate this kind of operation.

I don't care for scopes on pistols, they magnify the waving and interfere with skillful center-hand coordination, imo. My pistol had a rifle bead forepart sight and an omega peep in the rear sight holder.

You tin build confidence and consistency if you shoot rocks or seashells or those orange coil-effectually targets at all distances while walking around. That kind of muscle memory makes for memorable shots on game. I imagine cowboy action builds the aforementioned kind of skills. Give it a whirl.

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Well dang....Good thing I checked in first earlier going with the Corbon stuff. It'southward freaking pricey around here.
Thank you again, fellas..

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The SBH IN .44 magazine is fun to shoot and accurate for me. Just one deer so far came in range worth shooting, a nice doe, and nicely medium rare was the consequence. :D
Had one small yearling came inside six feet of the Ruger, I don't shoot those. But gonna endeavor it this yr over again.

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In a pistol a HC WFN, stable out to 100 yds ,if further run a LFN. I run a 45 255 WFN at chiliad fps, use to run them at 900 but AA brought out new data for 5744 that still keeps them at 14K psi. The deviation in a HC wfn compared to a jacketed HP or SP information technology out performs and penetrates. danny

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Danny do you similar the 5744 pulverization .45 load over the Unique load? I like 5744 for my old 32wcf, 38-55 and 45-70. I would like to endeavour information technology in my Filly.

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I have 1 of the 4 5/8ths inch barrelled Blackhawks with the conversion cylinder for .45 ACP. I have some 340 grain Wife Flat Nose bullets from Tennessee Valley Bullets that I purchased a while back at a gun show. I use them in Starline brass over 21 grains of H110. I have not chronographed that load, merely it is 1 that lets you know when it goes off. It is not a painful load, but it is not a .22lr either. Based on what I have read in articles and books written past those who know way more I practise, that load should be but fine for anything I would practise here in the States. It is a brinell hardness of 21 according to the person whom I purchased them from. That load volition grouping a 3 inch circle at 25 yards with me shooting it off hand (No residuum at all). I am pretty certain that information technology would group a lot smaller if someone who was really skillful with a gun were shooting information technology.

I purchased 200 bullets at the fourth dimension, and still take virtually 75 left. I don't shoot them much, and am trying to go a adventure to employ them on something other than paper.

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Cheque out the Buffalo bore or double tap stuff. They accept a lot to choose from. I find a 250 grain xtp volition shoot make clean through one from end to end

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