Who has killed a deer with 45lc

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I am wanting to hear from people who have killed deer or any game with a 45 long colt. I have a tc encore with a 20in 45lc barrel I am thinking about useing for a doe on my property this fall, want to hear your experience with the calibre.
Just so I don’t get a million questions I deer hunt with a rifle in 44mag and I have shot a lot of smaller game coyotes, badgers, gophers around my place with my rifle in 357mag so I know the limitations of a pistol caliber and all that jazz.
 
mmattockx said:
.45LC isn't going to be functionally any different than .44Mag.


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I agree it is functionally the same but it dose have less muzzle velocity and that would equal less energy down range. I am very well awear of the 45lc and 44mag being close. I started the tread just day dreaming and planning about this years season and useing the 45 came in to my head so I thought I would ask the question more so to get a conversation/hear hunting stories going not so much about how well the 45 will or won’t work ect.
 
While not exactly a story of a 45 Colt, I have used 45 cal bullets meant for the 45 Colt in a muzzleloader in a sabot. A 230 grain cast bullet dead soft lead and about 80 grains of pyrodex P (whatever velocity that would produce) on a doe was very effective. Shot it around 20 meters, and she went about 60 meters and piled up. I'm sure it would be perfectly fine at reasonable ranges. I believe it's on the "can't use" list in Sask, which is silly to say the least.
 
I was shooting my 45LC yesterday at 125 yards yesterday. The lag time before I heard it hit the gong was noticeable to say the least. Would not use a 45LC on deer. (IMHO) . As for a 45 cal 300gr XTP out of my Savage Smokeless muzzle loader .. well that is a whole new level. lol..
 
powdergun said:
I was shooting my 45LC yesterday at 125 yards yesterday. The lag time before I heard it hit the gong was noticeable to say the least. Would not use a 45LC on deer. (IMHO) . As for a 45 cal 300gr XTP out of my Savage Smokeless muzzle loader .. well that is a whole new level. lol..
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I do that same in my encore muzzle loader 300gr 45cal XTP have yet to kill anything deer size with it.
 
powdergun said:
I was shooting my 45LC yesterday at 125 yards yesterday. The lag time before I heard it hit the gong was noticeable to say the least. Would not use a 45LC on deer. (IMHO) . As for a 45 cal 300gr XTP out of my Savage Smokeless muzzle loader .. well that is a whole new level. lol..
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I guess that would depend on the speed of the 45 Colt ammo. I used to have a Remington 597 and would shoot old hanging pots at 200 meters. You could triple tap it, visually watch and wait to see the pots swing after the delay, and then wait for the sound to come back. Might be a quarter second delay or better.

What velocity is your ammo?
 
mattgoulding said:
I am wanting to hear from people who have killed deer or any game with a 45 long colt. I have a tc encore with a 20in 45lc barrel I am thinking about useing for a doe on my property this fall, want to hear your experience with the calibre.
Just so I don’t get a million questions I deer hunt with a rifle in 44mag and I have shot a lot of smaller game coyotes, badgers, gophers around my place with my rifle in 357mag so I know the limitations of a pistol caliber and all that jazz.
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Might want to ask what ammo people are using, as there's quite the gap between powder puff loads and "moar powah" loads.
 
jamesharrison said:
One of my shooting buddies gets his deer ever year with his Winchester 94 in 45LC shooting handloaded 300 gr. WFNGC cast bullets in front of a healthy dose of W540]. Mind you the range here in the Shield is typically 35-65 yds., as you can't see past 75 yds. in the Black Spruce swamps.
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Here on my property the section I hunt the most would be same. Heavy brush sitting in a ground blind shots no more then 60yards
 
Definitely comes down to a hand loaded recipe with the right projectile, or +p rounds, I know there’s some hot specialty stuff out there scarcer than hens teeth. I always found it just lacked that punch through of a 44 Mag, which I would regularly put through trees, opposed to most 45LC which embedded in trees, most of the time shallow enough to dig out. I would be hesitant for deer, it saying it’s impossible there’s just better tools for that job
 
Suther said:
It doesn't necessarily mean less energy, weight of the projectile is also a factor.

What sort of ammo are you looking at? Something like this would do wonders from a 20" TC barrel.
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=335
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Just starting to look right now. Never planned on my 45lc rifle being one I deer hunt with so just have been shooting the hornady leverevolution crap. It’s actually very accurate in the rifle but I have used leverevolution in my 45-70 years ago when it first came out on a moose hunt and it was not great, not the round I would choose to use in the 45lc for hunting. I was looking around and prophet river a gun store here in alberta is a Canadian dealer for buffalo boar ammo. Maybe they can bring some in for me in 45.
 
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