A couple of years ago I picked up a very nice stainless 44 maggie from Fermin, he had converted it over to a Bisley with the 10 1/2" barrel. He told me he was sick & tired of it hitting everything he shot at. Well, now I'm having the same problem, this thing just won't miss. I've been packing it the last few days for deer but so far have only shot grouse with it, although I have seen several deer along the way.
I really think you could hold a foot over a grouse & pull the trigger & they would fly up & intercept the 240 gr cast HP that I'm running out there at 1200 fps. Of course this isn't a max load but its extremely...extremely accurate with 10 grs of Unique.
I haven't figured out the problem yet but just maybe there's a miss in there somewhere, should know in the next few days.
Last night I whacked these 2 blue grouse as they fed along a little stream, there were actually 3 of them but one bailed out on me before I could ear back the Bisley hammer, the other 2 paid dearly!
They was kind of in the shadows so I had to body shoot them, that makes it kind of rough on them when you are shooting HP's. They both started out the same size but one ended up about 6" longer than the other after that big hollow point zipped through his engine, transmission, heart, lungs,ribcage, liver, breasts & both drum sticks.


Tonight I whacked a real big blue, this one seen me coming & just squatted down in the dirt, bad choice, the big HP took most of the head off. You can see most of his head is gone. I gave these birds to a friend, she makes chicken soup out of them & wants all I can get. Six more days & I'm elk hunting, wish I had a photo of Elmer on one of my holsters! I can see a Keith classic holster in the works, yoweee!



Dick

Are you sure that's enough gun for those big grouse? Nice pics thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice chootin!!!!

Dick, just curious: Do you wear ear protection while hunting or are you just deaf like me?