Thread: 357 and 44 mag for deer?

I see the new shipment of Rossi’s finally hitting the shelves, quite like the look of the 44 mag

Originally Posted by Survy

I see the new shipment of Rossi’s finally hitting the shelves, quite like the look of the 44 mag

The new ones have a safety on the bolt, and it fucking sucks. Loose, stupid position, and once I take it apart I'm going to throw it far far away. However, it's reasonably smooth out of the box, and I'm giving serious thought to lopping an inch off the mag tube and putting a can on it. Need the hysteria to die down so I can get a few bits in (pic rail for my now unused red dot/s, sights will be a tad obscured with a can. Something like this perhaps: https://store.stevesgunz.com/index.p...products_id=80 )

Originally Posted by Tommy

The new ones have a safety on the bolt, and it fucking sucks. Loose, stupid position, and once I take it apart I'm going to throw it far far away. However, it's reasonably smooth out of the box, and I'm giving serious thought to lopping an inch off the mag tube and putting a can on it. Need the hysteria to die down so I can get a few bits in (pic rail for my now unused red dot/s, sights will be a tad obscured with a can. Something like this perhaps: https://store.stevesgunz.com/index.p...products_id=80 )

They state that there will be no shipping outside of the US of A. You'd need to have a willing friend over there to ship it over for you, I suspect.

Originally Posted by outlander

They state that there will be no shipping outside of the US of A. You'd need to have a willing friend over there to ship it over for you, I suspect.

Doable

Being from the USA, I'm not sure how large your deer are but my go to rifle is a Ruger .44 Carbine. (This is a long out of production rifle that is a 5 shot semi auto fed by an internal magazine.) I have used this gun on 2 Russian Boar, 6 Black Bear, and over 40 Whitetail Deer. It has never taken more than one shot to put them down at anything under 100 yards (91.44 meters) I do use a different caliber for Mule Deer because the ranges are normally much longer than 100 yards. I would not use it on Brown Bears, Elk or Moose however. Since we can no longer shoot Polar Bears in the USA, it has been a long time for that but I used a .444 Marlin out of a Marlin lever gun for the one and only one I ever bagged.

The black bears were taken with really hot and heavy rounds from Buffalo Bore, which I don't know if you can even buy in NZ.