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- From: dmunroe@hpvclmun.vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: light .44 Magnum loads
- Message-ID: <9212222140.AA25077@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:47:56 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- #So if I can load it with 6 gr in a .44 Special case, why can't I load the
- #same bullet with 6 gr in a .44 magnum case?
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- Several of my reloading manuals refer to a phenonmenon called "detonation"
- which supposedly occurs when a load is too light for the given case volume.
- What supposedly happens is that rather than the powder burning in a controlled
- fashion, it detonates and results in a pressure spike higher than the case
- is designed for. I don't know if this has ever been proven, but I keep
- seeing references to it and I do remember articles in the gun mags where
- cotton was used inside the case with light loads.
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- To answer your specific question, the .44 mag case is larger than the .44
- Special case, so the ratio of powder to case volume is lower.
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- -Dave
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