44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jenks Ok USA
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44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
I'd like to load a bullet with good quick expansion because the hunt is close quarters with woods, bluffs, creeks. I could lose a deer in this area although I haven't yet with my rifles. I'd just like to use a handgun but wanted advice on cast or jacketed bullets and wanted a good pass through blood trail for recovery but still with tremendous shock for possible immediate knockdowns. I like to use the broadside shot through both shoulders for a crippling and mortal shot so the animal doesn't run off very far if not already immediately on the ground.
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: A flat lander lost in the mountains of Northern,AZ
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RE: 44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
Id go with a 300 grain hornady XTP/MAG or a 225 grain barnes XPB. for shoulder shots i think I would favor more towards the XTP/MAG. good luck
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
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RE: 44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
I use Hornady 240 gr XTP HP bullets .
I load 24.5 gr of Hodgdon Little Gun ,Fed case ,Rem 2 1/2 larger pistol primer
From my 7 1/2 Ruger Redhawlk I get 1500 fps and out of my 12 TC Hunter barrel I get 1760 fps
Johnch
I load 24.5 gr of Hodgdon Little Gun ,Fed case ,Rem 2 1/2 larger pistol primer
From my 7 1/2 Ruger Redhawlk I get 1500 fps and out of my 12 TC Hunter barrel I get 1760 fps
Johnch
#4
Nontypical Buck
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RE: 44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
I would go with a Ballistic Advantage BOAR-SLAMMER Premium Hunting Bullet (ph: 325-529-3363) .44 Mag.- LFN GC 250 gr., WLN GC 280 gr. ~ 300 gr. One could also use Cast Preformance .44 cal. 255 gr. WFNPB ~ 275 gr., or 300 gr. WFNGC. Good luck.
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RE: 44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
Soonershooter:
The man who casts Boar-Slammer bullets is Tom Blackwell (Ballistic Advantage) 531A Cove Rd. Abilene, TX 79602 Ph: (325) 529-3363. He has no web sight to my knowledge. Give him a call he is a really nice fellow. Good luck.
The man who casts Boar-Slammer bullets is Tom Blackwell (Ballistic Advantage) 531A Cove Rd. Abilene, TX 79602 Ph: (325) 529-3363. He has no web sight to my knowledge. Give him a call he is a really nice fellow. Good luck.
#7
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 126
RE: 44 mag 12" Encore pistol load
I just started to reload and sight in a (.44 Mag)320 gr hardcast LFNGC from Cast Performance (Cabelas) with 21to 21.5 gr of H-110, Fed Case and Fed Large Mag Pistol Primer # 155. Aim for the shoulders and hit as many bones as you can. I shoot this load out of a Ruger SRH 7 1/2" barrel.