at all.
In other news, had a chance to shoot that Little Sharps again, and I've found only one problem with it: there's an odd tendency to start humming the theme to Quigley Down Under when you're shooting it...
I admit to a certain "If only it weren't made by Chiappa" sentiment, after that crap with the RFID chips a year or so back. Yes, they apologized, etc.; it was still a seriously dumbass piece of work.
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Why wouldn't .357 be a decent deer caliber? What is the speed of the bullet from that barrel? How does that rifle handle hand loads with heavier bullets?
I'd think it'd work nicely, especially from a rifle, 140-grain bullets or heavier. I seem to recall that with a rifle-length barrel you can get ~1800fps from the cartridge; with the right bullet, that'd take deer to at least 100 yards with no problem.
All he had along, ammunition-wise, was some 158-grain flatnose and some 158-grain semi-wadcutter, both probably about 1100-1200 in a 6" pistol, and it handled them nicely.
This year I tried a different deer load for my .357 Rossi carbine. I used 21 grains of W296 to push a 125-grain semi-jacked hollow point to just under 2000 fps. Sadly, I was not able to test it on an actual deer, but it's an accurate load in my gun.
MichigammeDave
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