For many years, I hunted northern California blacktails with my 44 MAG carbine and plain Weaver 4X scope. It would group 2.5 inch groups at 100 yards shooting Hornady 200 gr hollowtip bullets. These bullets hit like little grenades and rip wide wound channels through the chest organs!

But my older Marlin did not shoot 240 grain bullets very accurately. This mystery was never solved. Perhaps related to the slo-o-o-ow twist and micro-groove rifling.

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FIRE UP THE GRILL - is NOT catch and release!