Thread: 357 and 44 mag for deer?

My first deer gun was a Marlin lever in .44mag. Used to hand load 180gr projectiles ahead of Blue Dot powder. Hot load, traveling at 1800fps. Very snappy recoil. I could almost, but never quite, clover leaf three rounds at 100m. The .44mag kills way better than the >1000ft/lbs energy rules would suggest. Never lost an animal. Only sold it because the trigger felt like it was about 14lb pull.

I currently have a suppressed Rossi .357mag. Have a box of factory loads and 500 empty cases to start load development. Head shot a goat a couple of weeks back. It died!