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I've got a NavyArms Trapper 92, in .45 Colt.
I'm shooting a 300 grain Hornady at about 1800 FPS.
It'll get your attention, but is not unpleasent.
Have Cougar in my neighborhood, so this is my "go to" gun for woods walking.
Wife has a Browning 92 in .357 It's a pussycat to shoot. (ideal for her)
virgil B.
Last edited by vbshootinrange; 03/26/11.
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That's a good looking combo, and actually I have two .357's - a Ruger GP100, and a Ruger Vaquero (Bird's Head). My immediate reaction was just to match those things up and have fun popping away with a lever .357, but I know myself pretty well and I just know if I were to get that lever (with peeps) and started popping cans that would turn into popping rabbits, then the desire to chase javelina, then deer... thus the thought of maybe jumping to the .44 Mag.
The 357 is entirely adequate for deer out of the carbine. Here's a couple of Campfire links. 357 on deer .357 magnum in Marlin Lever gun for short range deer gun If Colonel Wesson can take grizzly with a 357 mag revolver, we should have no trouble harvesting deer with the same round from a carbine. 
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I shoot the 44Mag/240gr. From a WIN94 Legacy 24" barrel with no hints of big recoil. It's a real soft shooten deer gun. And the .44 makes a big hole.
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