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Sounds like you have made a total avocation of using this one cartridge While I have used many, the .44 has been my one and only love! :D I have a couple hundred thousand rounds through the .44. And 30 years of experimenting with it. what is it you do to be able to spend so much time afield? I reti...

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Yeah but...how do you feel about the 44?:D :D Welll, I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE...

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Oh MAN! You are asking about my most favorite caliber in the whole wide world! I may reload for about 60 different cartridges, but the .44 is what I am set up for in a BIIIG way. I've taken 19 elk so far with the .44, mostly revolvers, but a few with rifles. Using 240 JSP's to 330gr cast. Even kille...

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A wonderful family photo.

Oh yeah, a GREAT buck too

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I watched that a few weeks back and then again yesterday with my son. It was cool to see someone flying back into that area of Idaho and using a levergun. I've hunted in there for about 30 years and anytime I use a revolver or levergun people look at me like I'm a fool. Even the pilots are wondering...

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Well, knowing 'about' where you are in that photo George, I can only say I've most likely hunted through there! Very few ridges or trails that I haven't been on up the Cispus. From Pompey Peak to Snow Grass Flats, from Cispus lookout to Langille. I've been in all that country. I just wonder how many...

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Too cool! I made my wife come over and read the thread and look at the pictures! She agreed, too cool!

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Whoohooo! Way to go! A dandy lookin' buck

Congradulations

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As others have said, get a manual to start. When you do get started a kit is the way to go. You can't go wrong with the RCBS Rockchucker Kit. The LEE stuff albeit less expensive, is not on par with the RCBS, especially the powder measure that you'll get. Don't be afraid to ask questions, because yo...

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Awesome news, Gramps!

Better be getting yourself a new .44 Marlin, sounds like your 'old' one is taken!

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Doggone it George, were those taken up the Cispus? If I didn't know any better I'd say that those were taken darned near Mouse Lake looking out over Ore Creek toward Mt Adams, a little to the left. Cause it sure looks like where I hunt quite a lot! Am I warm? 44 ps, that ain't no levergun you have t...

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I kill deer out to and past 100 yards with the .44 and loads that do little more than 1300fps. Never lost one. Not ONE. Any 240 gr bullet, give or take 60 grains, will take any deer that ever lived.

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Nice deer! You know, I got to thinkin'. . . . When I was a kid I shot many deer with a .357 revolver. An old Colt Trooper. Lost track of the deer I killed on a private 80,000 acre ranch for the cowboy BBQs for the cattle roundups. Never had a problem with it not being enough gun. . . . . . EVER! Bu...

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When did the combo guns become so spendy? Been seeing priced from $350 to $550, at least the 2 i saw tonite were really nice shape. The 22/410 was $399 and the 223/20ga was $369, would really like one, but dont know if i can justify that amount. The old good ones are indeed expensive now :shock: I ...

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27grs 3031 with Lymans 311041

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I keep a Marlin Cowboy beside the nightstand loaded with 250gr SWC's with 9 grains of Unique and get about 1300fps. I have no neighbors within a 1/2 mile so I'm not worried about that. I keep 'er loaded up with 12 rounds. This is the closest thing I have to an assault rifle :lol: :lol: ON the nights...

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Wool. I live in the 'wet' part of Washington State. Wool will keep you alive.

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66GTO wrote:
44LVR wrote:I know guys who won't use less than a 7mm Rem Mag on 130 lb. whitetails at 75 yds.

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When you say 'woods bumming', I'm going with the premise that we are not talking about hunting season. :wink: I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have my 4 3/4" Ruger Flattop with me. I wear it on a lined 3" El Paso Saddlery belt with 15 extra rounds, in a deep 1880 crossdraw holster. It is a really ne...

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Hypothetically of course, but I am looking to see if some of you guys could say oh yea, no problem, I've shot lots of em with no problem. I've shot 1000's of them with no trouble. A cast bullet would be sized .358 or .359 anyway. One thing, for the type of bullets you are talking about, they are no...

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Nice buck, great story!

All the fellows who post saying that a .357 is 'marginal' needs to see your buck!

And all the fellows that post asking if a .357 is ENOUGH, should see your buck!!!

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piller wrote: For what it is worth, get the caliber you want, start reloading, and then have fun.

Well put!

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All I kill is deer, bear and elk with my .44's

Seems to get the job done

19 elk will attest to that

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Washington State, yes. 400 sq in.

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Head down, split 'em all the way down to the throat and give them a bit of a washing to make sure all the residual goo is gone.

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Nice buck! Congradulations on using a cast bullet

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Uh oh. I'm gonna be poor. I see a half dozen of 'em in my future.

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Excellent job! As a cast bullet junkie who has been hunting with and taking big game for 35+ years 'nearly' exclusively with cast, I LOVE hearing hunting stories about using cast bullets! I don't know that I would melt down the remainder of your stocks to make new bullets, instead I would shoot the ...

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Congradulations! On both the buck and the weight loss

Those cast bullets get it done right, don't they? I bet 95+% of my game over the past 30 years has been taken with cast bullets. And I just love that 311041!

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Wow!

A DANDY!

Nice job.

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Gun sales in Calif up 5 fold and sometimes more since the election. I'm partly to blame for that :oops: You and me both but, hey, we're gun nuts. We don't need an election to make us want another gun. Just cruising the latest gun magazine gives me GAS. (Gun Acquisition Syndrome.) :lol: :lol: :lol: ...

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AWESOME!

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AWESOME!

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I've been worried this could happen for about 2 years. Started buying a little here and a little there to add to the larder. Everytime I went to town, I'd buy something whether a brick of 22's or a jug of powder. While I'll never feel like i have 'enough', I'm not worried about my personal supply. 44

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CCI Mini Mags. I have a Slab side Ruger MKII that will put 5 of them into .25" At 25 yards. They shoot very well through most everything else I have. For general plinking, just about anything. But the CCI's are saved for making li'l tiny groups.

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Thanks for all the kind words, folks. I'm waiting for my wife to return from a conference and finish downloading pictures and then let HER figure out how to post them. I can't wait to see the bullet photo downloaded, it is a picture perfect example of what you want from a bullet. George, you know pr...

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I have about a 1/2 dozen photos but I'm so computer illiterate I can't figure out how to post them. I'm still waiting for my wife to send me the photo's of the bullet I recovered, from her work computer. It is awesome performance from straight wheelweights!

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Went out the back door this past Sunday morning armed with my trusty Marlin Cowboy in .38-55 and crossed my field and then into the heavy timber. Went in about 100 yards and darned if I didn't see a fresh track. Went on up my trail a bit farther and found a definately FRESH elk trail. Kept easing up...

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This is 100% bullcrap. A bullet doesn't have time to enter the animal, destroy part of it then have the partially destroyed vessels and arteries pick up lead fragments and disperse them throughout the animal in the seconds before its death.

ONE HUDRED PERCENT HORSECRAP.

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Pretty cool!

The 'shriek' part sounds just like MY wife when she kills something!

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Another big fan of the 311041! Sized .311 with 27grs of 3031 gives me fantastic accuracy in 2 different 30-30's!

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I got home from deer camp a couple days ago, our deer season opened on the 11th and we packed in and set up camp on the 8th. No deer were killed, only 2 does were spotted by 7 hunters in total :shock: Our deer population is down up high where I hunt. We had a ball though, there were grouse everywher...

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I got home from deer camp a couple days ago, our deer season opened on the 11th and we packed in and set up camp on the 8th. No deer were killed, only 2 does were spotted by 7 hunters in total :shock: Our population is down up high where I hunt. We had a ball though, there were grouse everywhere and...

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The Lyman 311041 is my favorite also. They weigh 175grs for me and I size them .311. 27grs 3031 gives me 1 1/2" groups @ 100 yards. Don't know the velocity

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I'm using some Herters LR primers I bought back in the early '70's, about 35 years old. Out of 1000 I just finished shooting up that had 2 misfires. I'm just using them for target practice, not hunting.

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I grew up in a family that hand built log homes. We closed it down a decade or so ago. I made my money growing up peeling fir logs (started out at .$25 per log in '68!) and was foreman by the time I was 19. I personally built them as small as 7'x9' (Great Dane dog house!) to one a little over 6,000 ...

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I'm starting my packing now, then packing in and setting up camp in 7 days. Deer season opens in 10 days. We get about 20 days this year for deer. Then right after elk! I'll be packing a 38-55 Marlin Cowboy to camp. If I don't tag up on something I'll be using a Marlin Cowboy in .44 mag around here ...

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Looking at my powder selection, I see more than 30 different powders.

But I could get with 2. Unique and 3031. Those two comprise 50% of all my powder anyway.

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So far my little GWP and I have accounted for 3 blue grouse, 2 ruffed grouse and 2 pheasants!

All were taken with a Ruger Red Label 20 gauge with the exception of one ruffed grouse. That was taken with a 30-30/20 gauge Savage 24V.

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BEAUTIFUL!! Absolutely beautiful!

That is the EXACT rifle I am going to start looking for in about 18 months. And I ain't gonna stop looking till I find some as nice as that!

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