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Originally Posted by m21sniper
What is the preferred bullet weight for .357s when hunting cougars?
PS: All that chasing is great exercise. 
PSS: Nostatic, seems like a damn fine choice to me. |
It seems most like to use mid weight JHP's, like in the 125-158 grain range. While I disagree with that choice, I cannot argue with their results. I always had either a Ruger Blackhawk or a Peacemaker in .45 Colt, with 260-ish grain hard cast Keith style semi wadcutters. No one could tell on whit of difference - us or the cats. I always felt my choice would be better if someone screwed up and one came for us, but that never happened. They would have had to have made it through about half a dozen hounds anyway.
Definitely a young man's sport, especially in our Cascades. At 48, there is no way in hell I could keep up for a day, much less several in a row. Good thing they outlawed the hounds damn near 20 years ago.
Tabby, some of the finest single actions I have had the pleasure to handle are three screw Rugers. The transfer bar guns won't slick up as nice, and the "free conversion" guns are worse yet, but a well set-up flat top is damn near orgasmic... I could play with one all day...
And the Python is probably the best damn .38 Special ever made. Start feeding them stiff loads of 2400 under heavy bullets, though, and they quickly cry "uncle". My Python toting big brother finally learned, after sending his back to Colt twice, that he couldn't shoot my heavy hand loads in it. I had a Blackhawk, and a Peacemaker, and currently have a Virginian Dragoon (of early '80's American manufacture, not the Hammerli) that all digested thousands of them with nary a whimper.