First deer with my new Henry 44 Carbine

[Hank44]

I've been hunting for over 20 years and have taken quite a few deer and a moose with my bolt rifles. I've been on a 7 year drought, so I wanted to try something new. This is my first hunt with the Henry 44 Carbine.

Quartering shot from 50 yards took out both lungs. The blood exited mostly from the entry wound (back pressure?). The 240 gr XTP jacket separated. I did not recover the lead portion. I did not find a significant exit wound.

The deer ran about 75 yards downhill before expiring.

[Stray Cat]

Congrats on the nice buck! The drought is over!

[Sir Henry]

Nice buck. Congratulations.

[JEBar]

really nice buck taken with a very capable carbine .... do you load your own ammo

[Vaquero]

Looks like a nice one, Congrats.
Curious like Jim, factory ammo or homemade?

RP

[Hank44]

Thanks!

I loaded these myself. My previous attempt to hunt with a 44 was with a Ruger semi auto carbine, but somehow tromping through the woods, I found that the safety had been bumped off safe three times. Ended that.
I had these rounds loaded up for a few years until I finally found a Henry side gate carbine locally.

I load all my hunting ammo myself. 308, 30-06, 7mm08 and more 44 to come.

[daytime dave]

Congratulations on a fine buck. Seems it worked well.

[Hatchdog]

Congrats on a nice looking buck and some great shooting.

[~BumeRod~]

Very Nice and Congrats!!!!

[Hank44]

Update:

Processed the deer and did a little more forensics. The deer was quartering away at about 50 yards. The bullet broke through 3 ribs and took out the lungs. The gut, heart and liver were all intact.

The bullet had separated from the jacket and both recovered from inside the body cavity. There was a small bone fragment that had exited.

Not an excessive amount of collateral meat damage.

I'm very happy with the bullet performance.