44mag and recipes for hogs.....where to begin.
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Hard cast lead bullets, Beartooth is my goto supplier
http://www.beartoothbullets.comI also prefer the heavy for caliber bullets 280gr -320gr, with a preference toward the 300grainers.
The 300gr WFN and WLN varieties will work in pretty much anything Ruger. The WLN bullets pretty much completely fill the cylinder in my super blackhawk. Both shoot very well but for hunting purposes I prefer the WFN design.
If you have a Ruger, I would suggest purchasing bullets sized .432. This is a bit on the large size for most companies revolvers, but throats on all of my Rugers run between .4315 and .432" and the .432" sized bullets are a perfect fit.
To push those heavy slugs, I like the following recipe:
BTB 300gr (.432)
Starline brass
Winchester Large Pistol Primer
20.5gr H110/W296
Seated into the crimp groove with a heavy roll crimp.
With a 7.5" barrel this will run around 1250fps.
Out of my guns this load has yielded exceptional accuracy and I have yet to recover a single bullet (although I have recovered every hog). The recoil is pretty stiff and I would not want to feed a steady diet of these to something like a S&W 629, but out of a Ruger, you will grow old before this load takes a toll on it. This is also pretty near a top end load. Start lower and work up but I generally find that all my H110 loads tend to give the best consistency when loaded right up at the max.
The Double Tap load that Whitworth mentioned is also a decent load if you are looking for factory loaded ammunition. The consistency was not quite as good as my handloads but I attribute that to the fact that the bullet is sized .430 instead of .432. That being said, it is most certainly accurate enough for all but the longest shots, and it really hits like a freight train. Plenty of boom and recoil with that one.