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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    2 wolves. Let out a cow call and they started howling and coming to the lake. Popped out 300 yards away and was just getting lined up when they disappeared. They came out on the other side of a small creek about 40 yards away howling and walked right at my son and myself he was getting his phone out for pictures when I let fly with a 35 whelen with 225gr handload partitions. They were at about 20 yds. He didn't get the pictures.

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Charging black bear 4 paces came from over 100 yds away circled around and came in hot .30-06 with 180 partitions .
    Another large black bear ,came in silent while calling elk and started running at me at 20 yds shot him in the white diamond on his chest at 8 paces with a 340 weatherby with 225 ttsx dead, at 7 paces.Heart was pounding pretty good.
    Two point black tail at 6 feet while sitting on a stump,walked right up to me .6.5x55 120 solid base Nosler.
    Large mule deer at under 3 feet. Shot him in the brisket from under him.He as chasing a doe and I was on a skidder trail ducked down behind a cut bank and he was on the top of it and I shot him as passed directly above me as he jumped to the skidder trail.Didn't even aim just raised the gun,followed thru with the muzzle and pulled the trigger. 264 win mag 140 partition.
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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Quote Originally Posted by MRP View Post
    Theirs nothing under gunned about a. 444
    Thee 444 isnt a stopper, 200gr bullet @ 2500fps,,the 45/70 out performs it by a lot,,I was just wondering how it actually worked for him in a real life situation. I use a 45/70 quite frequently and its a stopper with heavy cast bullets.



    No it got left behind in the gut pile. "Melted with the meat" thats funny.

    300wm and 300wsm deer and several moose at 25 feet or less.
    The 444 isnt a stopper, 200gr bullet @ 2500fps,,the 45/70 out performs it by a lot,,I was just wondering how it actually worked for him in a real life situation. I use a 45/70 quite frequently and its a true stopper with heavy cast bullets.

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Single shot 500s@w It puts holes in things

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Double 12 guage,#4 buck, powder burns in fur. One dead black bear. X 2..lol

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Quote Originally Posted by .330 Dakota View Post
    The 444 isnt a stopper, 200gr bullet @ 2500fps,,the 45/70 out performs it by a lot,,I was just wondering how it actually worked for him in a real life situation. I use a 45/70 quite frequently and its a true stopper with heavy cast bullets.
    Going by your logic you should have a 460 Weatherby or maybe a Howitzer. I'm gathering you're one of those guys that are scared to walk in the bush without a gun. Which is usually 50 feet past the edge of the pavement. I trust a good man with a 30-30 over a knee knocking nail biter with a 45-70. My .44 ranch hand definitely doesn't meat your approval eather.
    Last edited by MRP; 04-16-2021 at 07:49 PM.
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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Big Bullfrog, 2 ft, ditch in front yard when I was 7.

    Mauser BB gun
    He's anything but a hunter.
    More like another, Rain Coast Sociopath Fraud. Living off the prevails of his chronic lies, like the rest of them...

    It's an issue, because these sociopath environmentalist's, will dilute the facts.
    To the point you or Joe public, won't know them any more..
    They count on that big time..

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Quote Originally Posted by .330 Dakota View Post
    The 444 isnt a stopper, 200gr bullet @ 2500fps,,the 45/70 out performs it by a lot,,I was just wondering how it actually worked for him in a real life situation. I use a 45/70 quite frequently and its a true stopper with heavy cast bullets.
    Standard load for the .444 Marlin is a 265gr at 2300fps. I shoot 300gr at 2200fps and 325gr hard cast at 2000fps in mine. It's nothing to sneeze at.

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    The closest big game animal was a whitetail at about 10 feet with a .300WM. Biggest caliber was .416 Rigby on a black bear.
    .375 H&H, .375 Ruger, .375 Weatherby - THE 3 KINGS!!!

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    Re: What is your best, closes quarters, biggest caliber big game kill?

    Black bear at 10 yards with .30-06
    Bull moose at 10 yards with .30-06

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