This gun has become my favorite, very accurate, today I hit steel at 80 yrds, I've never done that before, started at 100, I'll get there I'm sure, I've found for a general load 8.5 grains of unique, and a 210 gr xtp to be very accurate, and I believe would be effective on deer as well, I have chronographed this at 1050 fps from this 6.5" blackhawk, same bullet with 18 gr 2400 is running 1286 fps, maybe this will get me to the 100 yrds mark , but the unique load sure hit that steel hard at 80. I'm amazed at the accuracy of this caliber, just ordered 3 more boxes of the xtp's. Now for some better weather and longer range sessions.