First kill with cast and handgun

[glockky]

Shot this doe this morning with my ruger super blackhawk bisley. This was my first revolver kill and first cast bullet kill. Load was 19grains of 2400 with a accurate molds 43-255R bullet cast of 50/50 COWW/Pure lead. The deer dropped in its tracks at 23 yards, which really surprised me. The entrance hole was huge and the exit hole was tiny.

[harley45]

Good shooting and congratulations!

[C. Latch]

I'm slightly jealous. I hope to do the same next weekend. :)

[RugerFan]

Awesome! I have the same pistol in .41 mag. I also use 2400 with great accuracy.

[MBTcustom]

I really want that pistol. I was salivating over one in Atwoods last Saturday. I think it was just this side of $700 which gets a man to thinking. Seeing this awesome kill, just doesn't help.
LOL!

Good shootin Glockky. This is what really gets me all happy inside. Seeing a new caster bring it all together in an awesome hunt!
I good friend of mine just did the same a couple days ago. He did his homework, experimented all summer, and made it happen on an Arkansas doe.
Just awesome.
I wish I could go back and live it again. Since I can't, I'll just congratulate you and assure you, you will never forget what just happened.

[glockky]

The picture of the deer is the entry wound with the blood everywhere. The blood was spraying while the deer was falling and was laying on the ground. I was awesome to see what a cast bullet could do. I still cant figure out the huge entry hole and the small exit. I am definitely enjoying casting.

[marshall623]

good shootn

[randy_68]

That is awesome. I have the exact same gun but I am shooting the NOE RD265 over 17.3 gr 2400.Hopefully I will get one this weekend either with it or my Henry Bigboy .44.
The damage from that .44 cast boolit sure is impressive.
I got my first crossbow kill yesterday on a small doe so now I would like to get my first handgun kill with cast.
Congrats.

[Grendel99]

Awesome! I have the same pistol but it's not the Bisley version and mine is scoped. I got my first revolver and first cast kill with it at the end of September. Even used a similar load with 20grs of 2400. Getting fantastic accuracy with it and Lyman Keith bullets. What profile bullet is that mold? Maybe the exit was smaller because the bullet was pretty soft and shed a bunch of weight and the exit was a bullet or bone fragment? Congrats again.

[wool1]

Congrats....love seeing handgun/cast kills.

[Djones]

Congrats!

44 mag with 17.5 grains of 2400 under a NOE RD 265 here. No sweet kills yet though with my 5.5" SBH.

Great job and thanks for sharing your success.

[pmer]

Thanks for sharing. It kinda rainy here but going head out with Redhawk.

[Three44s]

To answer the OP's question about the larger entrance and small exit:

Metplat and velocity drives the size of the wound channel.

As your cast boolit entered your deer, the velocity was higher. Metplat changes aside while the slug traversed your animal ......... the velocity dropped fairly quickly. That velocity reduction reduced the exit hole size.

Think about photographs of ballistic gellatin ......... you see the same phenomonen there.

Great hunting there and congrats

Three 44s