Okay there are some heavy hitters hanging out on this board,so lets have a discussion.At what velocity and weight projectile do you feel a certain caliber is at its peak performance.I'll start.

Most of my on game experience comes with a 44 mag.IMO the 44 is at it's best with 300-320gr projectiles between 12-1300fps.
Of my second experience is a 357mag.IMO 180-200gr projectiles between 12-1400fps.

Now there are lots more calibers and I know a few of you on here have got them share your thoughts.

For .475, I believe a 420 grain bullet between 1200 and 1,350 is optimal. Mine is loaded to the upper end of this range but only becasue it is so accurate that I don't want to mess with it. And I have never recovered a bullet.

.45 Colt Rugers love 300 to 335 gr boolits.

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Originally posted by bfrshooter:
.45 Colt Rugers love 300 to 335 gr boolits.

At what velocity?

1160 fps for the LBT 335 gr. 21.5 gr of 296 and a Federal 150 primer.

bfrshooter is sometimes ill-tempered; but he does like single malts.

Never ill tempered just not diplomatic like my friend Marko.
The load we use was giving me a problem today. Had a fellow from Kansas come over with a friend. I could not hit at 100 with my .475 so I tried some shots at 50. I was high, came down 6 clicks with the Ultra dot and centered all the little bottles of water at 100. Can't figure the change. All told, after the sight change, putting the bottles side by side showed about a 1/2" grouping.
The fellow from Kansas was astounded, could not wrap his head around a revolver doing that.
420 gr almost WFN. Now he is looking to buy a BFR!

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Originally posted by MS Hitman:
bfrshooter is sometimes ill-tempered; but he does like single malts.

Feed him single-malts and the temper disipates.....

Now just when have you ever seen me have a temper?
But, yes, single malt is a life saver. Makes me shoot those one hole groups.

For the .41RemMag a hard cast 250g at 1150-1200fps will shoot through some very large animals, if you do your job and get CLOSE. BUT I know a pistolsmith who uses the Serria 170g Sports Master from a Contender at 2000fps to kill elk.

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Originally posted by crawfish:
For the .41RemMag a hard cast 250g at 1150-1200fps will shoot through some very large animals, if you do your job and get CLOSE. BUTI know a pistolsmith who uses the Serria 170g Sports Master from a Contender at 2000fps to kill elk.

Does work for regular people or just "pistolsmiths"

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Posted 09 April 2010 04:59 Hide Post

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Originally posted by crawfish:
For the .41RemMag a hard cast 250g at 1150-1200fps will shoot through some very large animals, if you do your job and get CLOSE. BUTI know a pistolsmith who uses the Serria 170g Sports Master from a Contender at 2000fps to kill elk.



Does work for regular people or just "pistolsmiths" bewildered

I wonder how many failures and lost elk are out there?

i have good results with 335 gr .452 hardcasts at anywhere b/w 1400 and 1600fps depending on the pistol. never had a problem and smacks big game hard. if i'm using hardcasts.