using 250 grain SWC hard cast and 2400 powder and a fastfire 3 sight..From a rest my average 10 shots were at 3 inch.At 50 yards.Might have been better with fine cross hairs..Will this be ok for deer hunting out to 75 yards? I want to get back to the range for some more shooting before the senior season opens in two weeks..Thanks...John
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Depends who you ask but there is an old theory....roll a basketball out on the ground and shoot at it, rifle or revolver. When you can no longer hit the basketball you have found YOUR effective “killing” range. The basketball is the approx. size of the vitals of a deer. Do this offhand, no artificial rests or a bench. You are a hunter and owe the deer a humane kill.
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Tom
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3 inches at 50 yards from the bench shows the revolver and ammo are up to the task, in spades. As Tom mentioned, how far out can you stay on a basketball (or paper plate, they are cheaper targets than basketballs) from offhand? Also try bracing against a column at the range hut, imitating a "tree rest" where you stabilize your forearms leaning against a tree, sometimes this can be made to work in the field.
If you want to use this as an excuse to buy a shot timer, see how fast you can hit that paper plate drawing from whatever holster you intend to hunt with. Needless to say, keep your finger off the trigger, until your sights are on target, always, but particularly when practicing a fast draw.
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I too have always recommended the 8" paper plate. When you can keep ten shot in the plate, that is you max range for what ever weapon you are using. I didn't invent it, it was the test for Junior Archery Hunter's class.
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We used the 6" paper plates when I was a kid. Dad would walk down the trail and clothespin them to the brush along a deer trail. Anywhere from 5 - 8. He'd come back down the trail, and one of us would start down the trail, with him following. Shoot the plate as soon as you saw it. He'd let us know when we walked past a target. They'd be placed 50 - 100yrds off the trail.
Great snap shooting practice and target identification.
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