Peregrine82
Well-Known Member
On another site there was a poster who had taken hundreds of troublesome bears with a 44mag handgun. He recommended jacketed hollowpoints/soft points because the point of impact got the bear's immediate attention and frequently caused them to bite at the stinging wound. This gave the shooter ample time to put additional shots on the distracted bear. Multiple good hits from a 44mag is fairly potent medicine for a bear.
I tried using hardcast pistol bullets on whitetails and was rather unimpressed. Deer often ran off when hit in the boiler room. Yeah, they died but the bullet just didn't cause the terminal reaction that I hoped for. I switched over to Nosler Partitions with good results. Firing Swift A-Frame bullets in my 454 seemed to give a reasonable balance of expansion and penetration on large wild boar.
There is a place for hardcast bullets but I'd rather rely on a premium jacketed, controlled expansion bullet pushed at high speed.
Hundreds? If anyone claimed this I would like to see evidence to back it up.