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That would be dandy, thank you!
.44 Goldilocks Load
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That would be dandy, thank you!
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GeoDude, magnum cases with standard primers. American Select is my absolute favorite cast bullet powder. It fills cases extremely well, and is more forgiving on pressure than Bullseye or Red Dot.
At one time my most favorite cartridge was the 44 Magnum. I reloaded them, (5) from mild to wild (123 gr balls over a dusting of Bullseye to 300 gr, ingots over near max loads of WC 820) and I have 4 guns that have never fired a jacketed bullet as long as they have been in my possession. Many (most?) of my loads were with Universal, and many Magnum level loads with WC820. I also used the "normal" 44 powders. BlueDot, 2400, and a few H110. I have also run quite a few 240 gr LSWCs (Lyman 429421) over Bullseye and W231. I just used data from my manuals and while I didn't have a chrony to check speed, many were easy shooting and accurate. I reloaded a lot of 240 SWCs in 44 Special brass with the faster powders, fun trigger time...
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I will give several above recommended loads a try. Since I am sitting on all this AS, this will be the first.
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If you message me your phone number I’ll text you pics of the whole article.
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Congratulations on your new SBH, you’re going to find that it is a fun and sturdy handgun that will shoot just about any sane load. And best of all, it will do it for so long you will someday pass it down to a worthy heir.
Right on both counts. I have put plenty of factory through it this week (justified as creating empty brass to reload) and really like it. It has quickly become my favorite gun to shoot. I even ordered leather and an extended grip and plan to make this my main woods gun. So, yes, I have found it fun and sturdy.
As for passing down to a worthy heir, my son has always had his eye on my customized Colt Combat Elite Defender. Not anymore. You know that mouth open, drooling, blank stare a 19 year old gets when he sees a particular girl? That's what he looks like when he sees the Blackhawk. Love is so fickle at that age...
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Must be nice, my kids just roll their eyes at my old man guns then go back to shoot their Tupperware.....
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They’ll come around, we all do eventually. My 10yr old loves my srh 44 and 686 357. He’s only allowed to shoot arthritis loads in either, which means bullseye and lead. And both loads are in magnum brass so he gets to feel tough because they say magnum. I did allow him to try the srh 454 once with a mild load for the caliber, only one round in the cylinder and I helped him hold it, he did great but admitted it was too much.
All the comments on full cases with the slow powders are true. 2400 seems to me like the entry level magnum powder, you have to think magnum ideas but have some leeway whereas h110 is an all or nothing affair, and can be dangerous. 4227 is magnum class but have better leeway, plus, most book max charges of 4227 will break the press handle before getting a bullet fully seated.
Bullseye, red dot, aa2 force you to pay attention because you can have an assembled gun turn into a kit gun. I’m not a fan of kit guns. Powders like that are why I despise powder drops and won’t use them, well, and old bench rest shooting habits.
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I lucked out. My son likes my 1911, SAI M1, Colt 1873, and now the SBH more than my AR’s or Sig P22x models. Closest I have to Tupperware is a Sig P290 for which he has no use.
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Follow-up: I have several pounds of American Select and got a good price on a box of 500 245 gr. CMJ Frontier bullets from the LGS, so I figured I will use what I have. Ran loads from 7.8 to 8.4 grains. Found 8.0 grains gives plenty of notice that you have a handful of gun, shoots clean, and gives a pretty nice group. Will load up 100 at this recipe and see how they do over a larger sample.
Followed up my testing with 100 rounds of PMC Bronze 44D (240 grain TCSP with advertised muzzle velocity of 1,497 fps.) Man, that stuff is hot.
Followed up my testing with 100 rounds of PMC Bronze 44D (240 grain TCSP with advertised muzzle velocity of 1,497 fps.) Man, that stuff is hot.
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