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(Yes, I have heard all about Elmer Keith and Dirty Harry and how the .44 Magnum will kill deer and anything else at 200 miles on a dark day. I am talking about the real world, not a fluke shot or Hollywood fantasy.)
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I have hunted deer for almost twenty years with .44-40 caliber rifles. I have taken more than a few out to a hundred and twenty yards or so with full black powder loads pushing a 200 grain bullet at around 1200-1300 fps. I have never had a deer run more than ten or fifteen yards. A .44-40 is about as powerful as a .45 colt but isn't as powerful as a .44 mag, and all of this happened in the real world and nowhere close to Hollywood and weren't "fluke" shots. It's all in where you put the bullet.