Results with .432 265g Ranch Dog

[Silvercreek Farmer]

I wasn’t impressed with the wounding/blood trail the last time I used the boolit cast from 49/49/2 WW/Pure/tin. So I moved to 98/2 pure/tin and added a small hollow point. Pushed along with 80g of Blackhorn 209 in a CVA .50 cal rifle using sabots. Results were impressive. Doe made it 50 yards or so with one lung cut in half and the other one nearly. Blood trail was good, but not bucket of paint good. If I had hit her lower it might have been a gusher. Pic is the entry side. Might have clipped the shoulder blade which would have enhanced expansion and/or a bit of fragmentation. Meat is hanging in the walk-in right now, I’ll know more when I cut for packaging.

[versa-06]

Bet that left a blood trail, Ha Ha:kidding::kidding:

[hc18flyer]

Looks pretty darn good to me! Me thinks you're gettin picky! hc18flyer

[Bazoo]

Awesome, congratulations. That's one of my favorite bullets. I shoot it out of my Winchester 92 in 44 Magnum and my Ruger Blackhawk in 44 Special. I have the bullet on my website, it was one of the first I ever entered. I run mine through my Lyman 450 after push through sizing. It holds a surprising amount of lube.

https://i.postimg.cc/mk69PLXz/lee-ranch-dog-ctl432-265-rf-693.jpg (https://postimg.cc/8fMc3SVN)

[lar45]

Wow! What an entry wound!

[DougGuy]

Heh, I shot one with a 45 cal 400gr soft lead round nose nestled in a Knight sabot out of a White 50 cal inline broadside about 40 yards, double lung shot, but what happened next caught me by surprise. The doe took off trotting and I could SEE the woods on the other side through the wound in her rib cage! It was like a baseball sized hole straight through. I have killed a lot of deer, but I have NEVER seen through an animal's ribs after it was shot before this one. She didn't go far, maybe 20 yards.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Cut the entry shoulder this morning. The boolit did NOT hit the shoulder blade before hitting the ribs. Yet the shock wave was sufficient enough to shatter the bone. I’ve never seen that happen with a cast boolit before. The deer I shot in the shoulder with the solid nose, punched a clean hole with no fracturing.

The hole in the shoulder meat was about the size of a golf ball, with no excessive meat damage. Between trimming up the edges of the hole and a bit of blood, I probably only lost 8 oz of meat. Both shoulders are now on the smoker;)

[Bazoo]

Awesome report. Glad to see someone else that is hunting my go to 44 Magnum bullet.

[Anchorite]

Bazoo, Could you tell me a little more about that bullet and your website? Thank you.

[Hickok]

That is exactly the boolit I need! My Winchester/Miroku 1892 .44 magnum as a short throat, and I have to seat boolits slightly deeper and crimp on the front driving bands. None of my lever-action .44 have such a short leade/throat.

Can anyone recommend the best place for the mold, NOE or Accurate?

[Ramjet-SS]

Cut the entry shoulder this morning. The boolit did NOT hit the shoulder blade before hitting the ribs. Yet the shock wave was sufficient enough to shatter the bone. I’ve never seen that happen with a cast boolit before. The deer I shot in the shoulder with the solid nose, punched a clean hole with no fracturing.

The hole in the shoulder meat was about the size of a golf ball, with no excessive meat damage. Between trimming up the edges of the hole and a bit of blood, I probably only lost 8 oz of meat. Both shoulders are now on the smoker;)

This is what I love about cast boolits.

[cwlongshot]

Dandy bullet! I dont do allotta 43 Mag but this is a favorite bullet!!

https://youtu.be/7yFMzTo6zp8?si=pO2Wokkhp56ufnJG

https://youtube.com/shorts/fjl6vQkoc0w?si=-Xl0jspBolFbVFR9

[Bazoo]

Bazoo, Could you tell me a little more about that bullet and your website? Thank you.

Sure, I use the bullet out of both my Ruger Blackhawk 44 Special and my Winchester 92 44 Magnum. In the special, I've loaded it as light as 4.4 grains of Bullseye, and up to 5.5 grains of Unique, and always had decent if not good accuracy. In the Winchester rifle, I am running 22.0 grains of W296, with a Max load listed as 23.0 from Ranch Dog's notes.

I can provide some load data for both calibers, 44 Magnum from Ranch Dog himself (QuickLoad) via his old site, and some from a friend that ran it through Quickload for me for 44 Special.

Ranch Dog TLC432-265-RF (https://bulletmatch.com/bullets/ranch-dog-ctl432-265-rf) is the bullet page on my site BulletMatch (http://bulletmatch.com).

The site is a catalog of cast bullets I'm working on. I started the idea with my desire to load the Lee 358-140-SWC in 357 Magnum using W296 powder, but there was no data for that bullet. I started trying to research which bullets had a similar used case volume (crimp-to-base) so I could safely work up my load. I obtained a RCBS 38-150-SWC and it happened to be exactly what I needed, a nearly identical bullet in used case volume, slightly heavier instead of lighter, and with published data. When I started learning programming, I started cataloging bullets but it's turned into quite a bit more. We made an alloy calculator, and I'm working on a full reloading and casting tutorial. Here's a thread I started on it https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?461747-BulletMatch-a-Catalog-of-Cast-Bullets

[Anchorite]

Thank you, Sir!

[cabezaverde]

I am going to be giving this one a try over a light load of Unique out of my 444 Marlin Encore rifle.