Cast Boolit Deer Cartridge List

[bowfin]

updated to this point...

[whelenshooter]

50 caliber m/l with 250 grain Lee REAL bullet

[Moondawg]

250 Savage, not on your list.

[largom]

Built 2 new rifles last summer on Mauser VZ24 receivers, a 260 Rem. and a 257 Roberts. Killed a buck with each this past fall. No cast boolits ready so I had to use jacketed. Hornady Interlock 140gr. in the 260 and Sierra 100gr. Spit. in the 257 Rob.

Larry

[bowhunter]

How about a 32 rem. In model 8 remington. 170 gr. Rcbs 50/50 ww and pure lead. i killed one deer with it this year.

[JMtoolman]

Moose and a .447 71/84 Mauser for me. Toolman

[Urny]

Calibers not on the list so far: .223 Remington, .225 Winchester, .250/3000, .30-06 AI.

[jhalcott]

I've used the .280 Remington with a Lyman/ ideal bullet to take a couple white tails, the .35 Whelen and 358 JDJ were used also.The 358 315 and 358318 do outstanding work on deer in MY experience!

[10 ga]

This year used my .45 cal ML. It is an Encore custom smokeless ML and I use 200 gr. .40 cal boolits in the Harvester smooth blue sabots ahead of 38 gr. of 4759 touched off with a Federal 209 sitting in a Savage breechplug. 10 ga

[bowfin]

UPDATED AS OF 2-08-2012

No .243 Winchester yet...

[richbug]

.458 LOTT, Boom, FLOP.

.440 patched round ball in a .45 flintlock

[captain awesome]

No .243 Winchester yet...

I was quite surprised to see that.
You can add it now though. JSP

[Boz330]

40-65 with home made black powder.

Bob

[Bert2368]

40-65 with home made black powder.

Bob

Yes! Home made powder is styling!!! Out of curiousity, what grain size do you use?



A .308 Winchester for my deer this year.

[Boz330]

Yes! Home made powder is styling!!! Out of curiousity, what grain size do you use?



A .308 Winchester for my deer this year.

I thought that 2F was going to be the right size but the 3F grouped better. Kind of strange since it had more fines in it which I would have thought might have made it less consistent.

Bob

[grumman581]

Back in my younger days, I used a 7.7 Jap (i.e. 7.7x58) that my father had brought back from WW-II. The stock had been cut down quite a bit (sporterized). I've also killed a deer with a Ruger Blackhawk in .44mag (but only because that was what I happened to have in my backpack and the deer was stupid enough to just walk out on the trail in front of me and just stand there while I pulled the handgun out of my backpack)...

[grumman581]

Does a '74 Chevy pickup count?

[6pt-sika]

For the 2011/2012 season the only cast bullet guns I used for deer and bear were for the 444 MArlin . However I used maybe 10 different 444 rifles !

Also carried the gun a 444 and a 44 MAG with cast to Arkansas for piggies in early February of 2012 !

[whiteoak]

New here but I see I can add something, 300 H&H in Remington 700 Classic.

[CollinLeon]

Does a '74 Chevy pickup count?

I believe that is the largest caliber yet.