Can a 44Mag be Tamed ?

IMHO: Go ahead and shoot a buddy's .475 or .500 Linebaugh a couple of cylinderfuls; you will gladly shoot the little .44 magnum with glee (what recoil??) after that!!

If Any ONE Has More Info, Thoughts, ECT .
Please Share With Me/Us .

Fast forward to this Spring, I shot a 100 pound Fallow Doe at about 105 yards with the same 454. This load was a 260 FA bullet leaving the muzzle at 1890 fps. When it hit her, it sounded like a baseball bat hitting a tree. She spun around to see what bit her and about the time I was ready to send the second one downrange, she flipped backwards and never moved again. Strangely enough, this is the first animal that has ever been standing after that gun hit them regardless of the speed of the bullet. Been a good run with them hitting the dirt up to that point

But, the other thing that was really strange was the bullet didn't exit, its the only slug I've ever recovered. The bullet retained 70% of its weight but didn't exit. It went dead through the center of the front shoulder and I think the bone disrupted the flight and probably turned the bullet causing the base to hit the skin on the offside trying to exit. I bet the skin stretched two feet out on the other side but it did not exit. I guess this was a long way to try and describe how just because a bullet is moving along at cruise missile velocities, it doesn't necessarily make it better. Get a good heavy duty slug and run it at the comfort level that you are happy. If a 270-300 at 1000 makes you happy, get after it and find the happy distance that you and the gun are comfortable with and go hunting!

Its always interesting to see what others think of different gripframes. The double actions to me put much more impact on the wrist when I shoot the heavy loads. Where the single action Super frame makes it much more pleasant by rolling it up and not straight back. All of the big guns 475 and 500, are usually built with the bisley gripframe, all of mine are. While it works well, I still feel that the Freedom Arms gripframe is just about as good as it can get for me personally. I can shoot whatever you put in that one and its less noticeable to me than the bisley with the same loads but I still have more bisley's than anything if you look in the safe. Just different for different people. If you are ever in the vicinity of KC, give me a shout and we'll throw some lead down a few different guns and let you make up your own mind. How they feel at the gun counter and how they react when they are shot are not the same to me. The 10.5" Super is a pussycat to shoot in my opinion. As for velocity in that gun, with the 313 grain RCBS slug, it ran about 1430 out of that gun. Not needed but that is the load that I tried in it first and it shot so well, I didn't mess with it

The 240 XTP was about 1550 or so if my memory is not messing with me today....