Hi all, pretty new here but not new to casting. Loving this site so far, seems friendly and tons of good info. I hang out on Rugerforum.com a lot. Thought I'd post a pic of two little meat deer I was able to take this past season. Killed them about 10 minutes apart about 200 yards from my back door. Have had a stand back there in a little patch of woods between our little rural subdivision and some CRP ground with a big creek beyond that. It's a real deer corridor.
The sixgun was my S&W model 24-3 4", load was the Lyman 429244 HP, straight WW metal, air cooled, 17.0 of 2400. Both one shot-kills, both ran about 25-30 yards and piled up.
Grendel99 asked if I could post a pic or two of the bullets (I shoulda known to do that, right?) so here's a few I made right quick. Sixgun are the aforementioned 24-3 and a custom .44 special on an OM Ruger flattop .357 built for me by John Gallagher from nearby Jasper, Alabama.
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This was the first bullet mold I bought when I started casting back about 1980. I've got a few other molds now, but favor these for my hunting .44s. You can see I need a different top punch, this one rings my bullet noses a bit, but I don't reckon it hurts anything. I use the same bullet in my 7 1/2" OM flattop .44 mag with AA-9 or 2400 for about 1300 fps, and have killed several deer with that load, too. Yet to recover a bullet, so I don't know if I'm getting any expansion or not. I'd like to think so, but stuff just falls over dead anyway, so I'm not too worried about it. Thanks for the kind words and interest, really enjoying the forum.