[CaseyChadwell]

I bought mine at cabelas. It was my birthday present to me from me.

 

[CaseyChadwell]

I came across this product from Underwood. Underwood ammo offers similar performance at a much better price.

http://www.underwoodammo.com/357magnum180grainlfngcboxof50.aspx

I seen those the other day!!!! I'm going to try them out. Its hard to find 180 grain bullets and really hard to find them cheap. Even if they're slower, they will do fine inside 100 yards I'd say!

 

[CaseyChadwell]

I really expected the leverevolution ammo to have a bit more velocity than 1390s...

 

[CaseyChadwell]

My Rossi is amazingly accurate. And the new one are drilled and tapped for a scout scope.

 

[CaseyChadwell]

Mine just has a 2.5x handgun scope. It really helps in low light conditions when the brass bead is hard to acquire.

The Thompson center encore base bolts right up to the drilled and tapped holes that's under the rear sight. It makes it pretty handy and you don't need a weird sight that's hard to come by to mount one. The best thing I've found about the forward mounted scope on the rifle is how fast you can raise the target and be on target with both eyes open. Its a real treat to shoot, swings great and the small handgun scopes don't add a lot of weight to the over all package. It's by far my favorite rifle to carry out in the woods and the 158 grain federal semijacketed soft points I've used into he past really hits them hard. I was just curious about the 180s because we've had some pretty big hogs on trail camera and I'd love to crack one...and if it would give me a bit of an edge on deer, that would be good too.

 

[CaseyChadwell]

I don't know how to post pictures (the whole photobucket thing is confusing), however I took a decent sized doe with the 357 carbine but I used the federal fusion. I shoulder punched her, it was way too far forward to even get into the chest cavity. The bullet eneterdd one shoulder and exited the same spot on the other shoulder. She flipped down a hill and died about forty yards down the hill from where she was first shot. Not ideal shot placement, but that was my fault. When we gutted her I noticed her chest cavity had no holes, but the lungs were black, I'm assuming the shock damaged them. When we hung her up and started to skin her out, the entrance shoulder almost fell completely off. The whole shoulder and all the ribs were completely bloodshot and not salvagable except for dog food. All and all, the bullet performed great, I did not perform that well because of the placement. The deer died, took longer than I would have normally liked, but it did die. The bullet ruined a lot of meat, but that is my fault for bad shot placement.

 

[CaseyChadwell]

I have some of the leverevoltion rounds and they just don't shoot as good as the fusions do. And the fusions and the buffalo bore 180 grain heavy rounds shoot the same poi at 100 yards so if a hog comes in and I can change to the heavy round I can do that. I did a wet phone book test and the leverevoltions don't penetrate well. I much prefer the accuracy and the penetration I get from the fusions. The shot was too far forward for my liking, and although she did die, it could have been quicker. Again, my fault.

 

[CaseyChadwell]

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