I suspect a decent hard SWC at medium to high velocity for a .44 special will penetrate amply. Don't know, and frankly, I doubt it is important now.

The fires in that area are so bad right now that the animals are running as fast as they can to stay ahead of them. Conditions are somewhere approaching horrible, and planning to go to any rural/hiking/camping area in most of central Washington is WAY past a bad idea. Here in Kittitas County, there are no fires at this time, but the air is bad. Up there, there are lots of fires, and the air is flat out dangerous from at least the west end of Chelan County over into ID. Your planned trip is a terrible idea and you have a good chance of being turned around at a road block if you are lucky.

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