i wanna know the range of fire of a Ruger 77/44, help me please?

Question

want to now some details of a Ruger 77/44

Answer 1

"Range of fire"?? If you are talking about effective range for the .44 Mag round, it is a short range round even out of a rifle.

I hand-load the .44 mag. but generally stick to the 240 grain bullet. One load I use will generate about 1200 fps from my six inch Colt Anaconda. The same round will produce 1550 fps from my Marlin .44 Mag rifle. The highest velocity round I ever fired out of my lever action Marlin was 1875 fps. I suspect you could even push that with the stronger bolt action or single shot rifles. I was leery of pushing my luck with the lever action.

As far as trajectory goes; my hand-loaded .44 mag tends to drop pretty good. My scope sighted rifle is sighted in at 50 yards. At 200 yards the round drops about 10 inches.

I don't shoot at anything beyond 150 yards.


Hey, WWD!! What's with the "older guy" remark!!!

Answer 2

Older guys like Old Fuzz may relate to this: I killed my first few deer with a Winchester 92 in 38-40, and it got rebarrelled to 44 magnum, a popular conversion back in the 60's. I hunt with handguns, including a 44 magnum, and my mindset is that they have the same range, despite the higher velocity from the longer barrel, though the sight plane of the carbine makes for quicker shots at the usual 30-75 yard range I take most deer. The old Ruger autoloader and its newer lever-action offspring make for good short-range jump-shooting tools, but I've never quite figured why they wanted to make a bolt gun in that chambering. This is not to say I disagree with the 150 yard range the other guys posted. It'll do, but that's not what it's for.

Answer 3

The range of a Ruger 77/44? Any pistol bullet whether it is a .357 Mag. or a .44 Magnum, even when fired out of a longer rifle barrel, will be extremely short-range compared to a rifle bullet. The pistol bullet design is NOT for long-range shooting. Pistol bullets tend to be fat n squat and will catch a lot of air (especially in the hollow-point configuration) making them tend to tumble as they loses velocity. Powder used in pistol bullets by necessity have to burn up all their powder in shorter, pistol barrel length barrels which tend to not allow the bullet to travel as far as a rifle bullet which use slower burning powder.

A .44 Magnum is a really good pistol round. When fired out of a rifle it will give you a little more velocity, energy n range but it is still a pistol bullet. Your Ruger 77/44 should be good for a maximum range of approx. 150 yards. This is great for a pistol round. Any further than that and you're better off with a rifle chambered for a rifle cartridge.

Best.

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Answer 4

Good little 100 yard or less brush gun for whitetail. Nice if you like to carry lots of weight like a pistol and rifle for the same cartridge. I usually take a porter along to carry the heavy stuff.

Answer 5

the 44mag bullet hunting load is humainly effective out to 100yards it will go farther but at 100yards it has alreadydroped about 10 inches black hills makes a 300gr bullet that will extend youre range a bit further