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I have a Ruger carbine in .44 mag, inside 100 yards it does the job just as well as any rifle you could buy. I hunt a lot of thick bottom land and that rifle loaded with 240 grain Hornady JHP's drops them dead.
 
I can tell you from experience it will make a deer's eyes go cross. I have killed with it and I have a good friend and that is all he hunts with, he is recoil shy and in a rifle the recoil is minimal. It makes a great first gun for a child.
 
I have a friend that has one of those Ruger .44 auto carbines. His son has killed deer with it every year for the last 5 or 6, 100 yards or less.
 
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I killed one last year with my Marlin 44. It did a good job but the deer probably ran 60 yards straight up the hill. I was shooting some type of platinum tip pistol ammo. This year I reloaded some Hornady ammo to try. If that doesn't work I will use Winchester white box. Everybody gives them good reviews.
 
Cast bullets work great with larger calibers. I killed many deer with my 45/70, several with loads using cast bulles that simulated .44 mag ballistics.
 

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