Why are the cartridges marked 'heavy'? I though a 158gr would be heavy.[/QUOTE
Not sure but it may mean heavily loaded, they shouldn't be fired in alloy framed revolvers. They make a 180 flat nose lead round too. All these rounds cost about $30 for a box of 20 that's a little heavy if your shooting a lot.
That Buffalo Bore ammo is expensive but it is really bringing home the bacon so to speak. I usually reload for my .357s. I may reload some 125 grain bullets for practice and use some of this Buffalo Bore stuff for deer hunting. A big deer on my farm is 150 pounds. A long shot is 100 yards. My 1894 CSBL with the Buffalo Bore ammo would be just the ticket for that sort of thing. The 125 grain loads may kill better than the 158s. I will see this fall. It is really nice having two rifles and a bunch of revolvers that use the same easy to reload ammo.
Congrats on taking out the pigs! Had some start showing up on my camera last week. Hoping to use my new (in December) Henry BBS steel carbine in .44 magnum once they show consistently for a couple of weeks.
Mighty fine shooting on the range and in the field. Good job!
Thanks for posting this. Dang, no hogs here, and I don't have enough "points" for spring bear, so it'll be August before I can go for "big game" this year.
My point would be whatever they are loading it could be easily duplicated. Pull one and see what powder they use and charge weight
ID bullet and cut out $30 per 20 deal. I know guys who don't load get carried away with Specialty Ammo but a loader should be able to roll up anything he needs. Not bad mouthing these makers or their products but they ain't magic.
Ahh man. I wish I was closer. Looks like a lot of fun. Good shooting. There are really big coastal hogs out here and terrain where I’d probably recommend more gun but at those ranges it seems to be working fine. I think the 357, 44 through a rifle are pretty solid.
Thick and tight skin will often burst at the sight of an entry wound due to its inability to stretch under the temporary wound channel effects. I've seen the same sort of thing, usually radial tearing, around entry wounds in scalp, hands, and feet. This entry wound is similar.
This topic has been brought up many times here about the ability of 1894c concerning hog hunting. So I purchased some 125 grain jacketed HP Buffalo Bore to test in my Marlin 1894c for accuracy and for its ability to kill hogs cleanly. The target picture was fired from 100 yards off sandbags the first two shots were very tight the second two moved a little the were fired fairly fast without letting the barrel cool as a hunting situation could be. The accuracy was more than enough for hunting purposes. Buffalo states the muzzle velocity for the round out of the rifle is 2298 feet per second with 851.3 foot pounds of energy @ 100 yards. I shot two hogs with the round the first was a shoulder shot on an estimated 100 pound boar the hog dropped cleanly there wasn't an exit wound. The second hog (pictured) was shot at about 50 yards and dropped instantly, this hog is estimated to be 125 pounds. I was surprised to see that the entrance wound was so large. What I found is the rifle with this round is more than enough to take hogs with from 100 yards in. The foot pounds of energy starts dropping off after that so longer shots would probably need to be head and neck only. Buffalo Bore has 158 grain JHP also that may work at longer ranges. View attachment 752443View attachment 752441View attachment 752447View attachment 752445
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