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This .44 cal bullet stopped my doe on Saturday. Shot from my Optima pistol with a green sabot ahead of a 63 weighed grain charge of BH 209, the doe was 37 yards away. The hit was at a quartering angle with impact 2/3 of the way up on the rear chest wall with the bullet lodged in a pile of broken rear leg bones on the opposite side. Unreal damage to the femur yet very little actual tissue damage.
This was a healthy doe at about 140-150 to pounds before field dressing. She went about 25 yards. The bullet caught a small piece of the stomach and absolutely turned the liver to mush, the whole liver.
Muzzle velocity of this load has been chronographed at just under 1450 at the muzzle. No doubt that there’s adequate energy and speed for the bullet to function.
This was a healthy doe at about 140-150 to pounds before field dressing. She went about 25 yards. The bullet caught a small piece of the stomach and absolutely turned the liver to mush, the whole liver.
Muzzle velocity of this load has been chronographed at just under 1450 at the muzzle. No doubt that there’s adequate energy and speed for the bullet to function.