HUNTING WITH RUGER SUPER REDHAWK .44 MAGNUM

On November 11, 1988, I purchased a Ruger Super Redhawk .44 caliber magnum revolver from Sports Unlimited in Charlotte, NC.  I installed a Leopold 2X pistol scope on it and I believe it was the following Sunday that I went to Blakney Steele's farm in Cason's Old Field adjacent highway 742S and sighted it in.  After a few rounds for sight-in at 100 yards off a good sandbag rest, I fired the next 6 rounds at the bottom of a Styrofoam coffee cup and placed four inside the small bottom and fired two more rounds with all six rounds being within a 5 inch diameter circle.  I was using Winchester Silvertip 240 grain jacketed hollow point bullets.  

The next morning, I hunted land adjacent Jimmy and Patricia Burns on 742N that was owned by Charles Simon and got on stand before daybreak using one of my home made Hunter's Dream foot climber tree stands.  I was up in the tree very high, probably 40 feet so I could have view of a small field and opening about 50 yards from my position.  After daybreak, several deer were within 20 yards of my tree stand and a small 5 point buck was chasing a doe in estrus.  I got on him a couple times but he would not be still long enough to allow me to squeeze a shot off.  Finally, he came back within 20 yards and stood still long enough for me to get the crosshairs on him and fired a round into him at an acute angle striking him behind his shoulder.  At the crack of the .44 magnum, the little buck jumped straight up with all four feet leaving the ground.  He ran into nearby thick cover and I heard him fall.  I got down and went to where I heard him last and he was pilled up for the 10 count.  There was no blood trail and no exit wound with the round being lodged in his brisket on the opposite side.  He was field dressed and loaded into the back of my old Chevrolet 1971 truck.

Later that afternoon, I went back to the same area and put my portable tree stand up watching a crossing at a logging road about 50 yards from the morning hunt.  I wasn't on stand too long before I heard a buck grunting making a sound similar to you rubbing your fingers across the bristles of a plastic comb.  The 7 point buck hurriedly crossed the logging road and there were only a few openings between small pine trees that afforded a shot and when he walked between two of the pine trees, I pulled the trigger and the buck immediately stopped in his tracks.  I fired a fast second shot and hit him in the neck.  I missed with the first shot and he should have exited, but he made a fatal mistake.  He was probably 30 yards away.  The rut was in full swing and that is when those bucks do some crazy and stupid things jeopardizing their safety to the hunters advantage.

I didn't take a single pix of either buck.  This was before the digital camera age and didn't lug my Nikon F2AS camera with me.

8 POINT BUCK FROM DECK

Below is pix of a buck that was harvested from the rail off our deck at about 50 yards. 

Don't remember the exact date, but he was a large bodied deer.  This ole boy came out about dusk dark and lit him up with the Ruger Super Redhawk like a Christmas tree.  My deck hunting days are over since we were annexed into the city limits either in 2001 or 2003, however the 134 acre +- track behind our property was not annexed into the city limits...imagine that.  Money sure does talk!  Anyone with over 5 acres within the circle to be annexed that year was exempted which includes the 14 acre Harry Hodges estate and the Janet Edwards estate which are closer to town than our property and there are large tracks of timber between here and uptown Wadesboro exempted as well.

NUB BUCK

I can't remember the year that I was hunting with the Ruger Super Redhawk, but I had seen a small one year old buck that had some crazy looking antlers which I nick named him Nub Buck.  I passed him up a couple times with the muzzle loader and decided to try for him with the .44 caliber magnum revolver.  I was using some hand loaded 180 grain Speer Jacket Hollow Point bullets loaded fairly hot since I waned some expansion and the bullet to hopefully exit leaving a good blood trail.

The little buck finally gave me a shot late one afternoon and I made a perfect heart shot on him at about 50 yards distance.  He didn't go but about 20 or 30 yards before running out of steam.

Below pix of the exit hole.....devastating!  The file pix says entry hole but I believe it is the exit hole.

The above pix was processed about 2016 and since then the Ruger Super Redhawk has a new home.

The above is a copy and paste from my hunting pixs from the past page and the first three (3) deer harvested with the Ruger Super Redhawk was before my entry into the digital age of web publishing.

Web page posted on 10-03-2026 by Bill aka Mickey Porter.

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Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

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