348Winchester
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My sisters gave me a 4 5/8 Blackhawk in 45 Colt for high school graduation. A few years later I killed a small buck with it in Hancock County on opening morning of gun season. I was in an old home made stand on a fence row. This meager spike came through the woods and I thought it was a doe so never took the rifle down from the nail it was hanging on. When the deer was just a few yards away I could see his tiny spikes. The 45 slid from its holster and he stopped when he heard the hammer chocolate chip cookie. At the shot he mule kicked and ran about ten yards before piling into a heap. Much later in the season I found the perfectly mushroomed 225 grain silvertip laying on top of the moss near to where he died. The bullet had passed through and must have just hit the moss bed without the power to burrow into it. I still have that bullet among others recovered from deer these past 4 decades.