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Any one hunt elk with a hand gun? Prefer hard cast bullets or regular bullets? AND why does this site keep freezing up?
Last edited by barber; 07/12/16.
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barber, Will probably use cast. Aint this site a "peach"! It's probably the best hunting/shooting/ect. site, until you try to use it!!!! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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Using Chrome and Adblock Plus, it virtually never freezes up on me...at least not on a computer. I've heard other things about using telephones.
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In 1988, I drew an elk permit in the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado and decided to use a my Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum. I bought some ammo from a small outfit in South Dakota, loaded with 300-grain hard-cast bullets. They worked very well--at least the one that I used to take my 4-point bull did. That is a sample of one, but if I was going again with a handgun, that is where I would start.
Ben
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Prefer hard cast in my dedicated hunting loads, but having said that, I killed my first elk (a cow) with a 475L using 400 grain Speer Gold Dots. Although it worked, smashing through the point of the shoulder, it did not penetrate all the way through.
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Campfire Tracker
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IF you cast (or know someone that does)that 310 grainer from Lee mold is very accurate and I would guess effective withing range limitations
Last edited by LouisB; 07/13/16.
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Believe I would prefer hard cast for Elk.
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