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blkbird305
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Gold Dot Short Barrel or Gold Sabres in 45 ACP for Whitetail
blkbird305
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Im probably over thinking this as always but I would like yalls opinion.
I plan to take a deer (most likely a doe) this year with my Glock 30 with a 4 inch aftermarket barrel. Range will be from dang close to around 30 feet and it will be from a ground blind.
The two factory loads that I have on hand are the Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel (this is my carry load since the factory barrel is around 3.5" and the pistol loves them) and the Remington Gold Sabre. Both loads are 230 gr in weight and both loads shoot very well from the pistol.
My thoughts are that I would like to test the Gold Dot to see what it will do (since it is my carry load), but since the Gold Dot Short Barrel is a bullet of softer construction (designed to open at lower velocities) that it may cause a nasty hole in and the bullet fall apart from impact (superficial wound) since it will be coming out of a 4" barrel.
Do yall think the Gold Dot Short Barrel will do the job cleanly and quickly or do yall think I should just play it safe a run the Gold Sabres for my hunting load?
I plan to take a deer (most likely a doe) this year with my Glock 30 with a 4 inch aftermarket barrel. Range will be from dang close to around 30 feet and it will be from a ground blind.
The two factory loads that I have on hand are the Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel (this is my carry load since the factory barrel is around 3.5" and the pistol loves them) and the Remington Gold Sabre. Both loads are 230 gr in weight and both loads shoot very well from the pistol.
My thoughts are that I would like to test the Gold Dot to see what it will do (since it is my carry load), but since the Gold Dot Short Barrel is a bullet of softer construction (designed to open at lower velocities) that it may cause a nasty hole in and the bullet fall apart from impact (superficial wound) since it will be coming out of a 4" barrel.
Do yall think the Gold Dot Short Barrel will do the job cleanly and quickly or do yall think I should just play it safe a run the Gold Sabres for my hunting load?
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Its not that I dont trust it, I just want to make the most ethical kill I can on a deer. For bad guys, Im not too worried about ethics, more to the order of front sight post and bang bang.
I very much admire your ethics and respect for the animal. But DRT is a crap shoot by any measure. I've killed deer all kinds of ways and seems like it's often very different. My lone handgun kill was with a .45LC, hot loaded. The deer was running at a later paced 85 steps. I hit it a little back and high but it was DRT. Conversely I once shot a small doe at about 100 yards, (guessing here), with a .300 Win Mag. It too was running in the brush but I hit her right in the boiler room. That little thing ran at least 100 yards. The blood trail looked like someone was carrying a 5 gallon bucket full of blood with a big hole in the bottom.
So, IMHO, either one of the bullets and distance you've described in your scenario should work just fine if you do your part. If it ends up DRT or runs off a piece it's still better than a slow death from mean ol' Mother Nature. Or a slightly shorter one by being pulled down by a pack of coyotes whereby they start eating her paunch first before her living eyes.
My $.02 adjusted for inflation in Obama dollars.
Yup! I thought about doing it with the 10mm, but I really want to use the 45. I may try the 10mm next.
Actually the one I shot at ten feet out the back door of my blind went further before piling up....
Hornady is a higher performer than the .45; so if you do, you still will not know how the
.45 would have worked.
I base my comment on shooting inanimate stuff not animals.
I agree, I just want to take a deer with the 10mm too.
Preferred bullet placement will be the heart with some double lung mixed in.
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
Also put me down for the cheering section on that. I think at close range, like bow hunting range, a 45 could be more than adequate and probably just down right deadly on deer. With a 230 grain bullet at inside 30-40 yards that thing will make a right nice size hole in Mr. or Mrs. Deer. Like wambli said, shot placement is important. It's not something you could hit it in the big toe with and kill it. But shot placement is pretty much important with any gun.
Something I forgot about, when I hunt lately, I've been carrying my 1911 with me. I have it for a finishing shot to put the animal out of misery, but heck if the situation arises I might just pop Mr. Bambi with it instead of the rifle.
But my plan for hunting with the 45 would be to fix a tree stand and do all the BS a bow hunter does to get Mr. Bambi under me, you know, camo make up, clothes, scent blocker, the works, just as if I were bow hunting. That would be ultra cool to kill a deer like that.
Yeah and I have no doubt it will work fine and be plenty ethical. However, you know that Uncle Ted is the Chuch Norris of deer hunters......:rotflmao::cool2::rotflmao: