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- From: chris@MorningStar.Com (Chris Miller)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: light .44 Magnum loads?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.153459.21903@MorningStar.Com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:40:27 GMT
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- In article <9212211532.AA05285@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov> weed@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (daniel weed 283-4162) writes:
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- #
- #I don't understand something I read in my re-loading manuals. I want to
- #load up some .44 Special class loads in .44 Magnum cases for target
- #practice, using jacketed bullets.
-
- First off, If these are just for practice, wouldn't it be a LOT cheaper
- to load wadcutters and save your jacketed bullets for your hot loads?
-
- #
- #Looking through the Speer and Sierra reloading manuals, I read NOT to load
- #44 magnum jacketed bullets lighter than the minimum recommended load.
- #For example, a 240 gr jacketed bullet can be loaded to around 10.5 to 11.5 gr
- #of W-231, but no less. But looking at the same bullet in the 44 Special
- #loading, it is backed up by around 6 gr of W-231.
- #
- #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?
-
- I had always thought that the reason they didn't show mild loads for
- jacketed bullets was simply because no one would ever want to load them
- that way. I hadn't noticed the warning you mentioned. In this case, it
- must have something to do with the tighter tolerances needed in the
- magnum revolvers?
-
- #
- #The same warnings exist for 38 Special/357 Magnum loading data.
- #
- #
- #BTW, a while back I asked for everyone's favorite .44 Magnum loads
- #and powders and general net wisdom on loading the .44 Magnum. I plan on
- #posting a summary after the new year. If anyone out there would still like to
- #contribute to net wisdom on .44 Magnum loading, E-mail me before 1/5/93.
- #(I would have already posted a summary if I wern't working so much
- #_uncompensated_ overtime lately... :-( ).
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-
- 240 gr XTP, w/24 gr of 2400
-
- (BOOM!)
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- #
- #Thanks,
- #
- #-- Dan
- #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------
- #Daniel Weed weed@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
- #McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co. - Houston
- # "My comments are my own, not my employer's"
- #
- #
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- Chris Miller
- chris@MorningStar.Com
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