White tailed deer with a Bisley in 45 Colt

[shotgunner]

I took a large doe with the Ruger this week, it was my first with a cast bullet and first with this new 45. I loaded a 300 grain Lyman bullet cast of wheelweights to about 1100 fps. The shot was an easy one, the kind to take with a revolver, and took the deer from the front, high in the neck. The deer fell where it stood. The bullet turned up under the skin on a back leg, gas check missing and a small dent where it hit the spine. The thing that impressed me was that after cutting up 3 deer shot with rifles, 250-3000 and 7x57, with this one it was just like Elmer said. You could eat right up to the bullet hole. The gun is a little more accurate with a Hornady 300 grain jhp, but this cast bullet seems to be more than enough. Are any of you hunting with cast bullets and if so do you use a harder alloy? Shotgunner

[Selmer]

I'll be using a cast 320gr. out of my .454 Casull this year at around 1300-1400 fps, according to the book, with a 7.5 barrel on a revolver it's supposed to go 1275, but I'm shooting a closed-breech 12" Encore, so I think I should be getting a bit more than the 1275.  I shot a turkey with it earlier this fall at a friend's farm place, shot it at the body-neck junction with a 255 cast at about 900-1000 fps, just a round hole, no meat damage, I didn't even cut it out when we cooked it!  I think I'll like the cast, I've shot all my other deer with bows or a .30-06 or .308 or .243, and they don't mess up a lot, but I hope this does less.
Selmer

[wyote]

I use a 295 gr cast bullet (GC) with a medium nose, in my bisley 45.  Also have a 330 gr. LBT  LFN  (GC) that I use.  I've used these bullets on quite a few deer, antleope, and bears. I've come to the conculsion that there all I need for hunting

I use wheel weights and water drop them. They seem be about right for me.

[swifty]

I took my first deer with a Ruger SRH 44 magnum with a 300 grain LBT
WFN GC bullet on top of 20 grains of W296. The shot was at 50 steps from a ladder stand-deer was facing me shot hit top of hips- past through the deer and left a hole larger than a golf ball. Earlier this year ,I shot two deer with a down loaded 375 H&H magnum
at 1300 ft/sec 260 grain lyman cast bullet #375449. It took several shots to drop the deer.This was no small task since I was shooting a Ruger #1.
The 44 magnum with the LBT 300 grain wfnGC bullet was a heck of a lot more effective than the 375 magnum at 1300 feet per/sec.
I am going after a South Carolina wild boar next week.

[Lloyd Smale]

my favorite alloy for hunting bullets is ww and lynotype mixed 5050 Its plenty hard enough to break bone without deforming and its ductable enough that it doesnt fracture.

[Castaway]

I use a Lee 255 grain bullet, cast of wheelweghts for my pistol.  Never had one fail on 5 deer and nine or so hogs.  No  lost meat except for the hole drilled through the vitals.