Thaninator....now that you mention it, I do believe you and your .45min account of that moose. I witnessed a guy that butchers wild pigs and feral pigs for a living on a ranch. He can field dress a 500lb+ ferak pig that's hanging on a gramble hook in about 15 min. If he's in a race, he could do it in 10 minutes. He does it everyday....that's his living. I love watching him work. It's like magic with him, a knife and a sharpening steel.

So 45min is realistic. Especially since you said it was a sloppy job etc... It probably wasn't that bad at all.

Im fast with deer, but bear im slower. Elk im slower too. then again, i take 45min showers too. My wife hates me for being so slow...

I add...for those people that think a .44 mag can't take down the largest moose/elk or bear, i ask you this:...What were our early hunting forefathers using in the 50's when it came to handgun hunting, when the biggest handgun around back then was only a .44mag??? Don't tell me there were no handgun hunters back then that didn't try their [successful]luck with a .44mag. In 1955 Thompson/Center chambered a .44mag with a 14" barrel. So I know that the gun was used on big game "way back when."

Range is an entire different topic with the .44mag, I'll give you that. You have to pick and choose your shots a little more carefully with that bullet.

With today's modern day .44mag high performance bullets, the .44mag has more "oomph" than it did just 10 years ago.

Edited by - Hk45USP on 01/08/2002 03:31:49