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Post by babills on Sept 17, 2023 17:27:40 GMT -5
Hi I'm new to reloading and just picked up a lee 4hole turret press. I bought a pound of h110. Now waht is the best loads for deer hunting? I'm looking at sierra jackets HP for the bullet or should I use hornady xtp? Maybe all lead. But I don't think h110 will be good with all lead? Thanks for helping a newb. The guns are a Ruger Blackhawk hunter and a Ruger redhawk. Both 7.5 in barrel.
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Post by bula on Sept 17, 2023 17:50:47 GMT -5
What gun(s) and where ? Details please.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2023 18:29:47 GMT -5
What bullets have worked for you before? Start with what you know works. Lots of powders work in 44 mag.
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Post by 500fksjr on Sept 17, 2023 19:25:36 GMT -5
Hi I'm new to reloading and just picked up a lee 4hole turret press. I bought a pound of h110. Now waht is the best loads for deer hunting? I'm looking at sierra jackets HP for the bullet or should I use hornady xtp? Maybe all lead. But I don't think h110 will be good with all lead? Thanks for helping a newb. There is nothing wrong with a cast slug an H110... |
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Post by bearskinner on Sept 17, 2023 20:06:27 GMT -5
Just thinking a S&W isn’t going to like the hotter loads that a Ruger digests on a regular basis. H110 works great, but doesn’t like to be down loaded much, so you need to consider the load to your firearm to keep from beating it up.
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Post by contender on Sept 17, 2023 20:07:12 GMT -5
Lots of variables.
If using a cast bullet,, make sure it's hard enough to be used with H110. Soft, almost pure swaged lead is very different than the many others out there.
Since you are new to reloading,, I'd start with the jacketed bullets,, and the Hornady's have a pretty good track record for hunting.
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Post by babills on Sept 17, 2023 21:34:03 GMT -5
What bullets have worked for you before? Start with what you know works. Lots of powders work in 44 mag. The guns are a Ruger Blackhawk hunter and a Ruger redhawk. Both 7.5 in barrel. |
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Post by bigbore5 on Sept 17, 2023 21:50:32 GMT -5
Find somebody on here to get some MP 640 cast hollow point gas check bullets from and probably never want a jacketed bullet again.
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Post by biggfoot44half on Sept 18, 2023 3:35:15 GMT -5
This is almost a trick question. Those 3 , plus 240 Gold Dot , plus decent Cast Bullets, would all be decisively fatal to a " mere " Deer . If you had asked about Elk or large bears, there would be meaningful contrasting them .
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Post by gnappi on Sept 18, 2023 4:17:41 GMT -5
Hi I'm new to reloading and just picked up a lee 4hole turret press. I bought a pound of h110. Now waht is the best loads for deer hunting? I'm looking at sierra jackets HP for the bullet or should I use hornady xtp? Maybe all lead. But I don't think h110 will be good with all lead? Thanks for helping a newb. The guns are a Ruger Blackhawk hunter and a Ruger redhawk. Both 7.5 in barrel. My Dad once took a big upstate N.Y. doe with 4227 behind a 240 grainer from a Ruger carbine (unknown bullet) and she ran over 100 yards into thick cover necessitating tedious tracking. The necropsy showed her heart was in three pieces! The bullet surely did the job but the doe didn't know it! |
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Post by harold89 on Sept 20, 2023 18:07:33 GMT -5
The 240 XTPs and JHPs are both great bullets. H110 is my favorite handgun hunting propellant.
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Post by pleadthe2nd on Sept 20, 2023 19:21:14 GMT -5
I like the 240 xtp for deer, H110 is a great powder, but I prefer AA#9, it is flash suppressed, which I appreciate in low light hunting, or from a ground blind, it's actually my favorite magnum powder
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 20, 2023 19:46:13 GMT -5
Hi I'm new to reloading and just picked up a lee 4hole turret press. I bought a pound of h110. Now waht is the best loads for deer hunting? I'm looking at sierra jackets HP for the bullet or should I use hornady xtp? Maybe all lead. But I don't think h110 will be good with all lead? Thanks for helping a newb. The guns are a Ruger Blackhawk hunter and a Ruger redhawk. Both 7.5 in barrel. My Dad once took a big upstate N.Y. doe with 4227 behind a 240 grainer from a Ruger carbine (unknown bullet) and she ran over 100 yards into thick cover necessitating tedious tracking. The necropsy showed her heart was in three pieces! The bullet surely did the job but the doe didn't know it! ***** Heart shot runs an encyclopedia of game response. Mule kick; jump straight up; drop right there; make an olympic run. Against that, I’ve seen a deer or larger beast escape to distance with a bullet hole through the heart. A fabled trophy hunter told me some African plains game "run 300 yards" with their heart blasted apart. Adrenalin is an amazing survival drug. An animal that knows you’re there is a different customer than your victim cold ambushed. From my perspective, a shot through both lungs tends toward predictable downfall. A shot through the heart which doesn’t explode the lungs produces a more varied reaction. Many a lung shot also clips the heart. This is double jeopardy, but hardly guarantees the animal is “dead right there.” My idea of a “DRT” shot ruptures the vertebra on which the skull pivots, which incidentally happens to blow up the brain. Blowing up the body also works, such as a .220 Swift on the chest of a coyote. The dynamics of killing are more varied than the dynamics of hunting. Likewise, the characteristics of .44 bullets are more varied than the required exactitude of revolver marksmanship. David Bradshaw |
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Post by babills on Sept 21, 2023 19:48:02 GMT -5
Well I found 200 240xtp local today and loaded with Winchester primers magnum and 24gr of H110. Now to see how they group. I'm really enjoying the reloading. Wife not happy about the money. Lol but I explain the money savings in the long run. Son sat down with me today and learned how to as well. As this will be all his before long and I wanted him to be able to have a good background in it. Ahh family time.
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 21, 2023 20:12:31 GMT -5
Well I found 200 240xtp local today and loaded with Winchester primers magnum and 24gr of H110. Now to see how they group.... ***** Doubt there is much accuracy left to discover in a Hornady .44 240 XTP over 24/H110. That load, along with the Sierra 240 JHC over 24 grains H110----or its maiden name Winchester 296----was loaded by the train in IHMSA silhouette. In other words, the load won’t so much repeat itswell proven accuracy as prove whether the particular revolver is accurate. David Bradshaw |
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