Anyone using handgun for Elk? If so, what load are you packing?
Trying off and on. I haven't managed to seal the deal yet.
I had an out of spec Super Blackhawk Hunter (over diameter throats, forcing cone, and muzzle) which I shot with 300 grain .433" LBT WLN GC bullets over 22.5 grains of Win 296 with CCI 350 or Fed 155 primers.
I carried it for a lot of years, killed several deer with it, but never happened to get it close enough to an elk. The gun eventually "went bad" (I don't understand how, but targets don't lie.) and I traded it.
It's replacement is a Bisley version of the same gun. It likes the jacketed 300 grain bullets from Speer or Hornady or Speer's 270 grain bullet, all with magnum primers and a max load of Win 296. If I haven't gotten around to getting a properly sized mold for it, I'll use whichever of those I can get my hands on.
It may never get the chance: I'm trying to get one of the new 5-shot Super Blackhawk Bisleys that Ruger is making for Lipseys. I don't care which chambering, whatever I can get first.
This year, though, my elk gun flings patched round balls.
Tom