Largest game with your 357?
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Largest game with your 357?
Talking a carbine or rifle , what have you shot or like to shoot with your 357 folks? Most of my hunting is just hogs and I find it works well on them. Longer ranges they can run aways before piling up, but being I'm not using a scope I don't take many long shots anyway.
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This elk was downed with two quick shots at a distance of about 50 feet. First shot slammed through both lungs. My second bullet tore across the diaphragm and blasted a hole in the liver. I estimate this animals weight at 375 lbs. The steaks and roasts were outstanding!
357 MAG is as effective as a modern compound bow at short distances in my opinion.
TR
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One whitetail buck shot by my wife and a 200 pound feral hog.
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For a long time, armadillos was the biggest animal I ever killed with a .357 Marlin Carbine.
Then a few years ago, I got a couple hogs with my 1873 Winchester (Miroku).
I've taken deer with my .357 Maximum early model TC Contender
Then a few years ago, I got a couple hogs with my 1873 Winchester (Miroku).
I've taken deer with my .357 Maximum early model TC Contender
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After about 18 or 19 shots @ 800 yards near Raton, NM, I got a 12 foot grizzly... err... black... er steel bear. Made a satisfying little 'tink' sound... barely heard over the echoes of the previous shots!!!!
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Re: Largest game with your 357?
I did that near Forsyth Montana with my 1892 Winchester (Miroku) in .45 Colt using normal pressure loads. On a steel buffalo a little over 750 yards away.
Pull the trigger....puff of dust...adjust ladder sight.
Pull the trigger...puff of dust....adjust ladder sight.
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Pull the trigger.........(no puff).....Turn to buddy. "Did you see where it hit." He shakes his head......barely audible <ting>
Took about 4 seconds for the bullet to hit and the sound to get back to us.
Repeat for more grins
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killed a 2000 pound short horn bull that went rogue with a 357 levergun.
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Re: Largest game with your 357?
Dayum, wish we had some of them around here. I would try one on with a carefully placed 357 at 2000fps+ from a 24" rossi.t.r. wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 5:12 pm
This elk was downed with two quick shots at a distance of about 50 feet. First shot slammed through both lungs. My second bullet tore across the diaphragm and blasted a hole in the liver. I estimate this animals weight at 375 lbs. The steaks and roasts were outstanding!
357 MAG is as effective as a modern compound bow at short distances in my opinion.
TR
I think you and wvfarrier slaying his rogue 2000lber win this competition.
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Re: Largest game with your 357?
I can't find the reference, but I read that when the .357 mag was first introduced They took it to Africa and dispatched all manner of big game with it, and IIRC even an elephant. I recall that the only load they had for it at that time was the 158 grain solid.
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Seems I read a colonel Wesson??; shot a polar bear with one.
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I got it wrong but I googled this.
http://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read- ... -revolver/
http://sportsmansvintagepress.com/read- ... -revolver/
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BB
Good stuff on the .357 revolver. Thanks
Good stuff on the .357 revolver. Thanks
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Re: Largest game with your 357?
Just got my .357 a few weeks ago. So far it has only hunted paper. My son has used it at the range and likes it a lot.
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Great article BB
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Re: Largest game with your 357?
A few whitetail deer with a 4in revolver (work gun).
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