Ruger 44 magnum carbine.

yotenaylor

yotenaylor

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I just picked up an original Ruger Magnum Carbine at a pretty decent price. Seems like it might make for a decent little calling rifle, as Its got plenty of power to put stuff down and Ive got 4 extra shots if I miss. Seems as though It should be about a 150 yard gun. What a neat little package.
Any one thats got one, Id like to hear about it. What works well for you-what doesnt. Holler back-Mike.
 
One COOL little rifle. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

I had one for many years and sold it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif Kick myself almost every day. I can't speak for it as a predator rifle, but it will do a devastating about of damage to a deer. Mine would shoot 3"-4" groups at 150 yards. I thought that was quite acceptable for a stock short-barreled autoloader. Good bullets and reasonably placed shots will produce the results you want at closer ranges. It ain't no speed-demon, but it hits like a semi-truck. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I've had two of them great deer gun where i hunt killed alot of deer with them.
Now that i started hunting coyote i wish i had keep one.
Hornady 240gr XTP bullets shot best for me and did great on Dear.
My wife shot her frist dear with one.

Gary
 
Any 44 Mag carbine is a good 100 yard gun but you are pushing it over that. The bullet profile just will not fly well and keep its energy at over 100 yards and I think 75 is optimum for it. I had one way back in the seventies for a short time but then got a Marlin and sold the Ruger 10 shots Vs five was no contest at that time. Scope it with a lower powers 4 to 6X scope and it makes a good close in brushy calling rifle.
 
I've got one and love it. Did some shaping and re-finishing on the stock. Had the metal Parkerized, and topped it with a Leupy 6X. Great for under 100 yds.
 
Yote,

Is it the new style, or the old one ?

Been thinking about buying one myself, but the old one's were gas operated, and the new one's (built on a ranch rifle/garand style action) aren't gas operated (as far as I was told).

I guess it's a recoil operated action, and more to my liking, as I would opt to use my cast bullets in it. Lead bullets in a gas operated action is a no-no.

It's a pipe dream for now, but I'd like to build one based on the .357 Max cartridge......love that round. Have to do some hocus pocus on the bolt face, or have one built....ponderment !


Take care,
Bob
 
Bob, Since I got it, Ive had pipe dreams about rebarreling it to one of those obscure 44mag necked down to .358 wildcats. Shoot, maybe even go to a 44/300 and shoot speer 110 gr varminters out of it. Who knows, eh???? Id probly be better served by puttin a few down with it in factory form first.

BTW, Its one of the old tube fed jobbies.
 
I had a .44 Magnum Ruger Semi-auto with a 4X scope that I gave to my son. It is a 100 yard rifle but 150 is pushing it even on a coyote. For close range calling though it does just fine... in fact so does a .45 LC lever action. They hit hard and they do not tear up hides.
 
A guy I hunt with uses one as his brush gun and it is pretty neat I have killed a lot of turtles with it. His looked like a really beefy 10/22 action IIRC.
 
IB- not to be argumentative, just informative-

From my calculators Im seein that a 200 grain bullet zeroed at 120 yards would be an inch high at 80 and two low at 150. Still way within minute of yote. The neat part is out at 150 its still packing as much energy as my 50 gr 223 at 100 yards. Not too many would ever think twice bout shootin a yote at 100 with a 223.

I just need to sit down and work stuff up on it. See what Im actually getting as far as number and groups and proceed from there.
 
Yeah, I think you're probably right on your figures and the gun is perfectly capable of taking coyotes out to 150. But energy isn't everything because the two rounds act totally differently. A .223 is a much more lethal and tissue destructive round on coyotes than the .44 Magnum at long range. That is not a bad thing regarding the .44 Magnum because it is lethal and not as destructive. Another thing is that I could never get the long range groups with a .44 Magnum as I could with a .223. In fact I felt that the .44 Magnum carbine went to H in a handbasket after 100 yards... but again IMHO only. I really liked the carbine or I wouldn't have given it to my son but he doesn't use it for long range hunting. I have a .45 Colt lever action Rossi 92 that is also an excellent short range gun and I wouldn't walk away from a 150 yard coyote shot attempt with it.... but I wouldn't take it out if that is the range I expected. However, for hunting and calling in NE Kansas where property lines are so close together, I like the pistol cartridge carbines cause they will do a good job and do not have extended range characteristics. For woods hunting I'd think they would be great for coyotes.
 
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