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Offline mrcoolid

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44 mag range report
« on: February 28, 2010, 09:42:11 AM »
Range report from southern Indiana 40 degrees and cloudy.

1. Top Target Hornady 265gr semi jacketed 22 grains of 296.

2. Second Target is 310gr wflngc 21.5 gr of 296.

3. Third Target is 240 xtp with 24 grains 296. (and some 22 plinking)

Seems like a start anyway...






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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 09:44:29 AM »
Awesome start!!  ;)

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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 09:50:53 AM »
I think the whitetails in Indiana better find a new place to hide.
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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 10:15:36 AM »
I love a 44 mag. ;D



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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 03:01:01 PM »
Lookin good!  24gr of H-110 under the 240 XTP has always been a deer getter fer me.  Only one that didn't drop was when my stock broke on a lever and the shot went low-left, broke the back leg and creased the belly opening it up.  The 44 is good deer medicine out to 125-150 yd.  DP
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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 10:11:18 PM »
 I am posting these picts in your hunting area. With directions to my neck of the woods ;)

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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 10:49:48 PM »
This is my first handi. The guy next to me was shooting a rem 700 in 7mm-08 and he was impressed with the little rifle as well.

I am sure I have been bit by the virus.. I am eyeballin a .357....

That's okay Lonny... I believe in sharing...


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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2010, 04:37:51 AM »
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24gr of H-110 under the 240 XTP

My hunting laod -- 21.5 gr of 2400 behind the same bullet -- has similar power. My grand total of one deer dropped on the spot and didn't get up.
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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2010, 05:48:31 AM »
I like that 2400 stuff as well...

We just need to shoot more ... and shoot more often...  ;)
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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2010, 01:49:57 PM »
Awesome. I bet the deer you shoot with any of those loads won't know that you covered them with a quarter instead of a dime. Congratulations on the gun and loads. I am saving for a 357 myself now. It will wear straight grips and schnable walnut when I get it with a Bushnell Red Dot.

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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2010, 10:51:37 PM »
Damon

That sounds like you have a plan... I think I am going to have to put a Boyds thumbhole on my .357, I'm not sure about the optics yet. I had that bushnell red dot, but I traded it.  ::)

Thanks

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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2010, 05:37:46 AM »
I figure all of my 357 shots will be less than 50 yards so a red dot is all I need. I looked at one yesterday in my favorite gun shop and started to take it home, but thought I may hold out a little while. If it sits there long I can get about 30 bucks off of it. I know that is cheap but I am still trying to justify my walking out on a gun I am wanting. It will more than likely become a max soon after I buy it, but you never know I will have to see how it shoots when I get one to decide.

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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2010, 03:06:17 PM »
Mine will group like that out to 75yds and only open up alittle at 100yds, I'm in IN as well, haven't takein a deer with it yet but, its a good shooter.
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Re: 44 mag range report
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2010, 10:51:11 PM »
dieselman

That is my next plan at the range... 100 yds with the 240 xtp's. I don't know when that will be, I am working a bunch. (Which I am very thankful for)

thanks for you input...

What part of Indiana?

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