White tailed deer with a Bisley in 45 Colt

[shotgunner]

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 4:32 pm    Post subject: White tailed deer with a Bisley in 45 Colt    

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I took a large doe with the Ruger this week, it was my first with a cast bullet and first with this new 45. I loaded a 300 grain Lyman bullet cast of wheelweights to about 1100 fps. The shot was an easy one, the kind to take with a revolver, and took the deer from the front, high in the neck. The deer fell where it stood. The bullet turned up under the skin on a back leg, gas check missing and a small dent where it hit the spine. The thing that impressed me was that after cutting up 3 deer shot with rifles, 250-3000 and 7x57, with this one it was just like Elmer said. You could eat right up to the bullet hole. The gun is a little more accurate with a Hornady 300 grain jhp, but this cast bullet seems to be more than enough. Are any of you hunting with cast bullets and if so do you use a harder alloy? Shotgunner

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i use cast bullets for hunting and everthing else in 45 and 500. all aare cast with wheelweight alloy. the only thing i use harder alloys for are higher pressure loadings like 454.  never found a cast bullet in any animal except if i used soft alloys  in softnose cast form. otherwise wheelweights seeems to give good combo of penetration and accuracy. quite a few of my bullets made of w/w have found themselves pointed at small buffalo. all exited. the animals weighed 500-750lb.  jeff