For reasons of my own, I want to hunt deer this year with a .44-40 Winchester 92 Clone Carbine. Where I hunt the shots are between 50-80 yards. I met a guy at the range who reloads a lot. He said he would be willing to load me some “hot’ .44-40, for a PRICE. He claims .44-40 is very hard to load and “it’s easy to destroy the cases, because the walls are so thin.” I don’t know if that is just B.S. to drive the price up. Can you load .44-40 “HOT” so it will easily kill a deer at 100 yards? Would such a HOT load be dangerous in a Rossi Carbine? What would be a commonly available power that you could use to load a .44-40 HOT? Would you load just a plain lead bullet, or should you use a hollowpoint?
Hot load for .44-40: What would work on deer at short range?