Lyman Devastator

[skeeter2]

Just tried out a 44 Devastator behind a heathy dose of 2400 on a porcupine that's eating my cabin. Never has anything been so appropriately named.

[Hickory]

That boolit works pretty good on a lot of critters.

[leftiye]

Yup, my favorite .44 medicine!

[Shuz]

That's a great design. I have both a PB and a GC version. The PB is for revolver use and the GC is for rifle use.(444 Marlin and .44 mag Winnies or Rossi 92.) I'd gladly trade a 4C Saeco 446A or 4C Saeco 441 for a NOE clone of the Devastator in 4C.

[runfiverun]

CORRECTION....
WAS eating your cabin.

if it's still doing so after the application of one of those boolits you better start building a new cabin, and let him have at it.

[skeeter2]

He was eating my cabin. I looked at him in the daylight. No head left. It completely blew it off. The incident was about 11 pm. I was amazed how little flash the 2400 had. Was not blinding at all

[fiberoptik]

He was eating my cabin. I looked at him in the daylight. No head left. It completely blew it off. The incident was about 11 pm. I was amazed how little flash the 2400 had. Was not blinding at all

I bet he'd beg to differ about blinding after loosing his head! =8;^)


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[leftiye]

Could possibly be enough gun for the job.

[msinc]

Could possibly be enough gun for the job.

Wait.....no way we can make a statement like this until we knock out 150 more of them with this bullet/load combo!!!! They are some destructive things...i have a sister in Pa. and they have really populated there. The damage they do is phenomenal. She had one chew up the rubber brake lines on her van. The mechanic said they go after the salt from the roads when it snows??? How much salt remains on rubber brake lines after they come out of hibernation???
I have a cabin in the mountains of Virginia...I haven't seen one yet, but they are there. I see pine trees that look like a mad beaver climbed 2/3 of the way to the top and "ringed" the tree. They have killed all but one pine tree on my land up there.

[Blackwater]

The minimal flash is the reason I went with 2400 in my .44. Much less than 296/H110 and all the performance and accuracy I could use. Excellent load, IMO. Here, we often get shots late, toward the last of legal hours, and getting blinded makes any gun a single shot, unless you just want to be shooting in the direction of the sound of fleeting hooves! Nobody wants to be in that position. And it was amazing to me how much difference it made. Most don't consider that. Shot a snake once at just about dark, and even then, the flash made it hard to see the results of my shot, so I started taking flash into consideration, and simply found 2400 to be far better in that factor than 296/H110. And accuracy was so good I couldn't find any real asset in the ball powders.

[ironhead7544]

IMR4227 has very little flash.