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The energy is about the same as 44 mag with my handloads. It's a 158 grain bullet at 1940 fps out of the 10.5" barrel. That velocity gives it what it needs to just drop deer and pigs shooting in the shoulder. I've killed deer with hot 44 mag and 480 ruger and a quite few other pistol cartridges...

I've killed a few decent whitetails and a good mule deer, but the one I'm most proud of has to be between these two. The first one is a little young 8 I shot in high school with a self bow. I had been shooting an hour a day 5 or 6 days a week for a few months to be confident shooting...

Great. Thank you

Can you bring reloads to South Africa? They're pretty much all I shoot from my bigger stuff and I'm going next year for buffalo. I've heard different answers to this question. This seems like a good place to ask this without making my own thread. I don't mean to hijack yours.

That would be a cool one too. I haven't seen anything on that cartridge before. Assuming it's the same case as the others it'd probably be pretty close to 257 weatherby ballistics with modern loads and that's a great cartridge. I found out about the 244 h&h from reading through my dad's...

I'd go with the 244 h&h magnum. In fact I did bring back my own version of it. My version uses a normal .243 caliber bullet where the original was a .245. The original loading was a 100 grain bullet at 3500 fps mine is a 115 at 3510 from a 28 inch barrel. It took some playing with to keep from...