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Offline teddy12b

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Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« on: November 01, 2006, 08:43:57 AM »
I'm just curious if anybody else is hunting with a Desert Eagle.  I have taken mine hunting before as a secondary firearm, but have never taken any game with it.  Mine is a 44 mag and it is pretty accurate.  Lately I have been making my own handloads in 180gr and 240gr.  If anyone has a favorite handload for their D.E. 44 I'd love to hear how it performs.
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Re: Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2006, 08:20:05 AM »
I had a friend's father use one in 44mag for a few years here in Michigan.  He was using 240gr bullets and they were doing a good job.  I am about 95% sure they were using the six inch barrel. He took one buck (head shot twenty yards) and a doe (lungs).  They didn't reload for it.  I don't know why he stopped hunting with it?  He used it only on those two deer.  Don't you have to shoot certain types of bullets out of it?  I think they have to be jacketed.
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Re: Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2006, 09:08:32 AM »
You do have to shoot jacketed bullets out of it because lead will clog things up.  I've never fired cast rounds out of mine, but those kinds of rules are for the guys that don't clean their guns after every trip to the range.
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Re: Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2006, 03:54:56 PM »
I sure wish I could hunt with mine. I bought it when I heard Illinois was going to start up a handgun season. Then the regs come out and guess what. No semi autos. Kind of disappointing, but it did give me a reason to buy a suoer redhawk.
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Re: Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2006, 12:05:47 AM »
Quote from: GRIMJIM on November 02, 2006, 03:54:56 PM
I sure wish I could hunt with mine. I bought it when I heard Illinois was going to start up a handgun season. Then the regs come out and guess what. No semi autos. Kind of disappointing, but it did give me a reason to buy a suoer redhawk.

I'm from the "Sucker" state, also. Illinois rules and regulations have changed? May allow you to use this gun, now? Seems like the rules change, yearly? A link to some of the probllems I've had in Illinois is below.

http://www.graybeardoutdoors.com/smf/index.php/topic,48399.0.htm
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Re: Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2006, 03:43:39 AM »
S.B.

It appears that the semi-autos are still not allowed in the 2006 regs. I really dont know if this is good or bad but dont really look for it to happen even with a specified amount of cartridges posted.
The DNR has become a little more relaxed on the handguns on the whole though.
I think that last year was the first (published) year for a Bottleneck centerfire .30cal case not exceeding 1.4" (Read .300 whisper) being legal.

Also listed as being legal is No Case Lenght Limit for straight walled cartridges. I dont know if this was there last year but am pretty sure it wasn't in there the year before this. It is  something to keep in mind  considering the size and weight of our grain fed Whitetails and the possibility of a longer shot.


 


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Re: Anybody else hunting with a Desert Eagle?
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2006, 11:56:04 AM »
Teddy12b,

A buddy of mine shot a doe yesterday at 35 yards with is Desert Eagle in 44 mag.  He shot her in the shoulder - it was a through and through shot - both shoulders.  The way she reacted he said it looked as if she had been hit with a sledge hammer.  She jumped about 3 or 4 feet in the air and landed on her back dead as door nail.  He reloads and was using 240 gr jacketed hollow points.  I don't know the rest of his recipie.  It was his first handgun kill.
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