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<blockquote data-quote="Darryl Cassel" data-source="post: 257" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Peter</p><p></p><p>The FP is enough to kill. The reason I say this is, My friends and I used to use handguns to hunt deer with. They were 357 mags, 41 Mags and 44 mags. Shots were made at anywhere from 50 yds to a tad over 100 Yds. Just check the ballistics and energy of the normal loads in an 8" pistol using the above mentioned calibers.</p><p>You will be surprised how low they are.</p><p></p><p>We killed a lot of deer with those handguns. One of my friends killed 11 buck in 11 years with his 357 Mag. If I remember correctly, his longest kill was 80 Yards.</p><p></p><p>If you compare FP of energy at close range to FPs of energy at longer range and they are close to the same, you can make a very good comparison to killing power.</p><p>The yardage in between don't mean a heck of a lot. It just so happens that, your 338 mag with 750 FPs of energy at the yards you ran ballistics on, has a lot more energy then the 357 Mag pistol does at the muzzle.</p><p></p><p>One question, was wondering what kind of a rangefinder do you fellows use there in Alberta? </p><p>We hunt at 7500 to 8000 ft in Colorado and I have seen how flat the trajectory is. Have never tried a straight 243 at 2000 yards YET. I have shot mine out to 1450 in PA. </p><p></p><p>Good Luck </p><p>Darryl Cassel</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darryl Cassel, post: 257, member: 34"] Peter The FP is enough to kill. The reason I say this is, My friends and I used to use handguns to hunt deer with. They were 357 mags, 41 Mags and 44 mags. Shots were made at anywhere from 50 yds to a tad over 100 Yds. Just check the ballistics and energy of the normal loads in an 8" pistol using the above mentioned calibers. You will be surprised how low they are. We killed a lot of deer with those handguns. One of my friends killed 11 buck in 11 years with his 357 Mag. If I remember correctly, his longest kill was 80 Yards. If you compare FP of energy at close range to FPs of energy at longer range and they are close to the same, you can make a very good comparison to killing power. The yardage in between don't mean a heck of a lot. It just so happens that, your 338 mag with 750 FPs of energy at the yards you ran ballistics on, has a lot more energy then the 357 Mag pistol does at the muzzle. One question, was wondering what kind of a rangefinder do you fellows use there in Alberta? We hunt at 7500 to 8000 ft in Colorado and I have seen how flat the trajectory is. Have never tried a straight 243 at 2000 yards YET. I have shot mine out to 1450 in PA. Good Luck Darryl Cassel [/QUOTE]
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