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the 44 mag silhouette with adjustable front site and 10 5/8" barrel





it may not be popular but its incredibly accurate and I know a few dozen deer and hogs and an a couple elk regretted its introduction
the front sites got four independently adjustable heights allowing you to accurately zero the pistol at four different ranges each of the 4 front site positions on the 10 5/8" barrel S&W is INDIVIDUALLY adjustable and the front site height can be almost instantly swapped by spinning a selector wheel in the site base
Ive got mine set on
50 yards
100 yards
150 yards
200 yards
once you site in, its dead on at the range selected, I generally leave it set at 100 yards, its close enough to be used in 90% of my shots set like that

btw
you can get really close by sighting in to hit 1.5" high at 25 yards =100 yard zero
you can get really close by sighting in to hit 3.2" high at 25 yards =150 yard zero
you can get really close by sighting in to hit 5.3" high at 25 yards =200 yard zero

making a 300 yard shot off a good solid sitting positions not that difficult on a gallon paint can

watch this video if you think a properly loaded 44 mag won,t kill game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTeEmNUkjw
my most effective load at long range is 20 grains of H-110 under a lyman 300 grain hard cast bullet sized .431 cast from 95% wheel weights and 5% tin by weight.
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