|
monsterhunter and Blitzz are correct.
You want penetration over all. Expansion is the enemy of penetration.
The best .44 Magnum loads are too heavy for the 329. If I were going to use a .44 Magnum, I would get a Ruger and stoke it with the heaviest Keith-type hard cast lead bullet I could find. 300 grains or more would be preferred.
As suggested, a good alternative would be a modern improved .45 Colt with the similar (but heavier) cast bullet. The standard SAA will not handle the loads that you want to use.
I would not advocate the use of any type of shot loads against a bear, except for slugs.
Best of luck.
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|