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Old July 5, 2013, 07:37 PM   #6
Art Eatman
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Join Date: November 13, 1998
Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA
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My only experience with the .454 was with a friend's Taurus Raging Bull. With max load 260-grain bullets, it shot reasonably flat to 100 yards and not much holdover for 185 yards. (Hell for loud, though.)

I've no idea about reliable feeding of .45 Colt cartridges in the lever gun, though.

I had a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt. Hot loads with 300-grain bullets were not all that hard for controlling recoil, and they'd easily put down a deer out to the limits of one's shooting ability. My idea of one's range limit is that of reliably hitting the end of a beer can. When you miss more than you hit, that's the time to back off and call it quits.
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