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I use the same bullets for deer in my .44 handguns as I do in my .44 mag carbines. 240gr JSPs. They mushroom and dump energy but stay together and generally leave an exit wound. Something that does not always happen with JHPs, specially at close range. At close range or the slightly higher velocities of handgun caliber carbines, IME, JHPs tend to over expand, dump too much energy and do not always penetrate deeply or exit. If you are shooting from an elevated stand, an exit wound at the bottom of the body is much preferable to one hole on the animals back, and two holes always leave more blood trail than one. If HPs bullets are such great deer hunting tools, why don' t you see more of them in rifle loads? Even in slow moving calibers like 30/30 and .32 special, JSPs are the norm. I tend to keep the HPs for the range and for SD/HD and prefer JSPs for deer, in both .357 and .44 mag. This is what I am most comfortable with and what works best for me.
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