I've hunted with full power .44 Mag loads in my SBH for years now, but I had a tumble off my mountain bike a few years back and messed my right wrist up pretty bad.It healed fine, but lately shooting my .44 more than a couple times leaves me in decent pain.I'm only 29, and I'm afraid of what my wrist will be like in 20 more years if I keep doing this.
So, have any of you used .44 Special loads, factory or handloads, on deer?Adequate or pushing it?Not really interested in the hot rod Special loads, just decent hunting loads.
Shane
The .44 Special can do whatever the .44 Magnum can do, just not so far away, i.e., the only thing that needs modification is the maximum range within which you are willing to use it on game. The factor responsible for this is mainly trajectory, but also impact energy.
