Like the title says, I am new here. In my state they made hunting legal with straight walled cartridges during shotgun season. So I picked up a Marlin 1894 in 44 Magnum, my reasoning for that is that I currently own a 44 Magnum revolver and I wanted to use the same cartridge. Soon as I purchased it I worked the action about a thousand times between me and the kids lol. After that I tore it apart polished everything up inside, I cut a link from each side of a hammer spring, I still need to cut down the lever plunger spring which I plan to do when I get back to town.
I've read several different things online regarding different ammunition and different cast bullets, what I find interesting is that it seems we can push the cast a little bit harder than we can push the jacketed. One load called for I believe 25 grains of h110 behind 140 grain cast bullet.
My question is those of you that may have this specific model firearm, end use it to hunt deer, what style and weight cast bullet do you run?
Thank you.