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Good solid rifle.........pre safety Marlins rock........
Had a 444-P.......but sold it.........now have an 1895 GS 45-70
Everybody needs a big bore Marlin........
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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Man this thread is making me miss my 444! It was my first big bore lever gun and got me hooked with the Marlins, thus my handle here and on other sites.
People say lever actions aren't as accurate as bolt rifles? They need to see targets like these!
I took deer with 265gr hornady, 270gr Speer Gold Dots and Marshals excellent hard cast lead. They all worked very well.
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Man this thread is making me miss my 444! It was my first big bore lever gun and got me hooked with the Marlins, thus my handle here and on other sites.
People say lever actions aren't as accurate as bolt rifles? They need to see targets like these!
I took deer with 265gr hornady, 270gr Speer Gold Dots and Marshals excellent hard cast lead. They all worked very well. 100yds 240gr Sierras.... 270 Gold Dots @ 100 yds... 300 gr. Barnes... From this.. DRT... was dead by the time his chest hit the ground, never made a sound.
Old Fishermen never die, we just get reel tired.
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nice.........thumper......pre safety.........
now get some Hornady 265's
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Getting my ducks in a row! Since Hornady brought that bullet to light, it's the ONLY bullet I shoot out of mine. I am lying if I told you what powder I use, but I'll check as soon as I get out of work. I do know that at 100 yds, mine will cloverleaf most of the time. I love it, and I know you will as well.
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Oh I'm all good to go and going to try and poke a TX hog with this load this week 265 gr Hornady FP and H 4198 at 100 yds!
My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan"
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My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan"
Covert Trail Cameras are JUNK
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Good shootin Dan, and, if any of those critters caught and kept one of those 265 Hornadys I'll eat it.
Trump Won!
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Great way to break in a new rifle Dan.That combo is what makes mine sing!
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
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Woody, now all we gotta do is hook Dan on using good cast slugs
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Woody, now all we gotta do is hook Dan on using good cast slugs Yep just like a good friend of ours over on Marlin Owners recently found out!
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
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My dog is a member of the "Turd Like Clan"
Covert Trail Cameras are JUNK
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bought mine in 1981 brand new for $219 at Mills Fleet and Farm in Minnesota...
first time I ever took it out to sight it in, was up north of Hibbing, and went out to where we hunted way before season....nailed a 'target' on a pretty decent sized pine tree, say 40 to 50 feet high...
put the first shot and it was too the left of the bullseye... adjusted the scope to the right and shot again, Still to the left of the bullseye...adjusted again, and shot a third time, dead center bullseye...
Was using Remington 240 grain factory ammo... shooting off the top of my Volvo wagon for a rest...
after that a slight breeze blew thru... the tree that was used to hold the target was 75 yds or so away... started to wobble.. a little stronger gust of wind, and the entire tree fell over...
three shots side by side had blown a hole thru 2/3s of the tree from side to side, and all the way thru the back thru line of travel for the bullet...
I was amazed to say the least... called it my logging gun after that...
use to impress my deer hunting buddies on properly placed shots on trees, could cut them right down...
never saw the need for a 45/70, although my buddy Keith had to go one up on me, and bought one...
first deer I shot with it, was that season... at about a 100 yds, a buck came out on a drive on a snowmobile trail.. saw me and turned away.. so instead of taking the Texas heart shot.. I aimed above the tail and at the base of its neck...it had only taken a few running steps when I pulled the trigger...hit its spinal column and turned the lungs into a bowl of spaghetti...
biggest deer I ever shot was in the winter of 1984, at 30 below... a big buck kicked out of a swamp drive...he field cleaned at 265 lbs...as he circled around the tree I was shooting from ( an uprooted one, that a storm had blown over and I was sitting on the roots about 20 feet up in the air).. at a distance of 75 to 80 yards, when I fired, he had just cut behind a sapline 4 or 5 inches in diameter...
the 240 grain bullet, cut the sapling in half...hit the buck in the lungs and exited on the oft side...
the old 444 is a highly underrated and underappreciated gun and caliber...my handloads are with the 300 grain XTP....
but for off season fun etc, you can use 44 Rem Mag load data.. the kids especially have fun blowing holes in trees in the woods, with a 180 or 200 grain XTP traveling at about 1000 fps...recoil is like a pop gun...
I admit to preferring the 300 XTP over the 265 FN...
the other thing I've notice, those bullets have little aerodynamic capability.. like shooting a parachute...
but I can throttle the MV back to 1750 fps or so, instead of 2250 fps and you give up about 15 yds point blank range and that is it... while reducing recoil by half...
my most common load is 30 to 35 grains of SR 4759 and a 300 grain XTP at 1750 fps...if its within 150 yds, its toast..
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Beautiful rifle, Dan. My uncles would smile on that one, were they still around to see it.
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Bought one this past fall. First chance at deer was 125 yard shot at a big whitetail doe. When it came out of recoil I saw a deer stumbling towards the woods, then I saw the doe I was shooting at dead in her tracks. The other unseen doe made it about 20 yards, found the bullet jacket in the off side rib cage. Was using the Hornady 265 grain flex tip. Will be selling my 1895 45/70.
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