Thread: 44 mag AP70 loads

Hey @The bomb.

You will find those 280 grain flat point cast bullets will pass straight through a deer with next to no deformation at all. If it’s a lung shot the deer is going to run like hell. The only way I would hunt with them is to shoot for CNS, so head or neck. Early on I shot two big pigs with this bullet and had it pass straight through the shield and both shoulders in a narrow wound channel resulting in slow deaths, albeit with dogs hanging off them until I got there. After that it was very close range head shots only with the flat point.

For general purposes the hollow point is a much better bet if CNS can’t be guaranteed. We use the hollow point for bailed pigs and various other applications, goats, occasional deer, plus farm culling. It opens up reasonably well and in doing so the cavitation is much better and heart/lung bleeds are noticeably bigger & death faster. That can translate to the animal making a good deal less distance.