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Hi Mr 16 ga.. My wife and I are outfitters in Manitoba ,Canada . When our clients are finished for the season we love go hunting big game with our 45 colts just for fun.
We both have macthing Winchesters , model 94's in 45 colt. Trust us we have many bigger guns in the gun safe but hunting with these guns are pure fun and satisfaction. Most hunters would be surprised how many big game animals we have taken with these rifles over the years . We have taken large bodied Canadian Whitetail deer and barrien ground caribou . Here is how we do it . We reload using the following load . Sierra 240 gr. JHC power jacket bullets pushed by H 110 - 22.3 grains powder, and a large pistol magnum primer . From years of personal in field experience ;takeing big game with this load, there is no reason for going to heavier bullets or larger powder loads or faster velocities . All our harvests are, one shot kills taken broadside or quartering away right behind the front shoulder and clean pass throughs . This fall I took a caribou with the aid of a range finder at 185 yards and my wife took a caribou at 125 yards. Both shots, one shot kills and complete pass-throughs. Pictures can be seen on the Sierra web site , double click on hunter success and scroll down or and other pictures of some of our 45 colt harvests at bigwoodshunting.com under pictures and your guides. Sight your gun in at zero at 25 yards and believe it or not this load will be zero or close to zero at 100 yards. At 150 yards you put the cross hairs on the back of a big game animal and at 200 yards you will have to find your hold over from the top of the back of your big game animal . It is really not that hard , you only have to remember space hold over for 200 yards .We are useing scopes for this long range shooting on caribou. This is how we practice, we use old frying pans with the handles stuck into the sand. Use the top of the frying pan is the animals back and practice at 100 , 150 and 200 yards. Useing this practice technique a couple of times out and you will realize the 45 colt is a muzzule loader with back up shots. Yes the 45 colt reloaded, is a great hunting round . The 45 colt derserves to be out in the deer woods. If we can use it out on the tundra to harvest caribou,take it deer hunting and don't look back . I hope this helps out all those thinking of hunting with a 45 colt in a rifle . Russ Popp bigwoodshunting.com .
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