200gr XTPs from a six inch M629, or a 24" barreled 444 Marlin, same result: One shot, one dead deer.
Hercules 2400 in the handgun, IMR 4198 in the rifle. Both loads accurate, both resulted in several dead whitetails, mostly lung pops.
Or more accurately, de-lungers with the Marlin.
It's a bullet I was pretty fond of when I had that rifle.
FWIW: Had a "Puma" M92 in 44 mag (24" bbl) for a few years, but never got around to killing a deer with it, eventually sold it. Hornady custom 44 mag factory loads in 200gr XTP, did shoot exactly the same at 50 yards, as my own loads using that bullet in that rifle.
Last edited by dubePA; 01/01/14.
