OK, I know I'd be preaching to the choir if I tried to extol the virtues of the triple 4 to all you folks that visit posts under this topic heading, but this is what I've seen this Fall - 2017 deer season - with the use of .444 bullets which I cast for a son's triple 4.
I have been testing and attempting to get a good powder/load combination with this 280gr Wide Flat Nose cast bullet in my RUGER 77/44 and about the best I could do after testing a bunch of powders is about 3" at 100yds.
Hmmmmmm?! seems to make this combination a 100yds deer rifle at about the best.
I have rec'd a new 240gr WFN mold from Accurate Mold in Utah, and will soon have a first casting session and then again begin to put together test loads for use come Spring/Summer.
But as the images attached show, the little .44mag rifle proved it self this season with the filling of my antlerless tag with a doe taken at a lasered 95 - 100yds. The bullet going side to side behind the shoulders and the critter dropping where it stood.
The second deer, a 4X5 buck taken this past Friday afternoon/evening was taken at about 50yds +/- as the buck stood directly facing me. Dead right there, the bullet completely penetrating the neck bone, then a shoulder blade before exiting.
My starting velocity is in the range of 1750fps and to say the least, the results have been decisive!
So, as said, preaching to the choir here, but this bullet in a typical triple 4 would be a real get er done on game with as always properly placed shots.
The starting velocity with the triple 4 being likely something over 2000fps a 200yd shot would be well within it's abilities providing a person can put the shot where it belongs.
Anyway, the triple 4 bullet in the .44mag rifle got it done and providing I can get the 100yd groups trimmed down to around 2", My 45/70 will likely have more rack time unless out for elk.
Yes, I am impressed with the results and can now better understand all the praise heaped onto the triple 4.
Crusty Deary Ol'Coot
I have been testing and attempting to get a good powder/load combination with this 280gr Wide Flat Nose cast bullet in my RUGER 77/44 and about the best I could do after testing a bunch of powders is about 3" at 100yds.
Hmmmmmm?! seems to make this combination a 100yds deer rifle at about the best.
I have rec'd a new 240gr WFN mold from Accurate Mold in Utah, and will soon have a first casting session and then again begin to put together test loads for use come Spring/Summer.
But as the images attached show, the little .44mag rifle proved it self this season with the filling of my antlerless tag with a doe taken at a lasered 95 - 100yds. The bullet going side to side behind the shoulders and the critter dropping where it stood.
The second deer, a 4X5 buck taken this past Friday afternoon/evening was taken at about 50yds +/- as the buck stood directly facing me. Dead right there, the bullet completely penetrating the neck bone, then a shoulder blade before exiting.
My starting velocity is in the range of 1750fps and to say the least, the results have been decisive!
So, as said, preaching to the choir here, but this bullet in a typical triple 4 would be a real get er done on game with as always properly placed shots.
The starting velocity with the triple 4 being likely something over 2000fps a 200yd shot would be well within it's abilities providing a person can put the shot where it belongs.
Anyway, the triple 4 bullet in the .44mag rifle got it done and providing I can get the 100yd groups trimmed down to around 2", My 45/70 will likely have more rack time unless out for elk.
Yes, I am impressed with the results and can now better understand all the praise heaped onto the triple 4.
Crusty Deary Ol'Coot
