44 spl all around loads

[nofendertom]

Shot a lot of home cast (wheel weight) and commercial cast 240gr LSWC with 4.5gr of Bullseye out of a S&W Model 29 8 3/8in. Very pleasant and accurate.

 

[gonoles_1980]

For my wife I load 4.0 gr of Titegroup with a 240gr LSWC. Nice recoil for her.

 

[Bazoo]

700X is great with lead in the .44 Spl, I need to try it with some coated lead, I bet it does great. W-231 did very well too (I had very limited powders back then), but 700X was a little better accuracy wise, whether it was a Magnus 215 or 240 Gr SWC, or my own cast (Lee mold) 208 Gr WC.

I really liked the 215 Gr SWC for an all around load.

That lee wadcutter is neat. I ain't tried any of them, but seen it referenced. How did they shoot for you? What was your max range? 50 yards like a 38 wadcutter?

I have been looking at accurates website at the 200-215 grain moulds. I'm thinking a round flat nose might scratch an itch I didn't know I had.

 

[Walkalong]

The Lee 208 Gr WC shot great, never tried it past 50 yards. Sized/lubed (lubrisizer) shot a little better than tumble lubed only.

 

[Seedy Character]

Trail Boss is your friend

 

[.38 Special]

I use two loads almost exclusively in the .44 Special. One is the Skeeter load, which makes up about 90% of my .44 Special shooting. The other is the "original" 246 grain LRN load of 6 grains of Unique. (I use a six pot Lee mold and can't for the life of me remember the number. I don't think it really matters, though - anybody's plain base LRN mold should provide a useful bullet for the project.) Regardless, the old load tends to run about 700-750 fps, has been quite accurate in most guns I've tried it with, and is nearly recoilless. I wouldn't hunt anything with it - let alone use it for defense! - and it doesn't make clean holes in paper targets, but for woods loafing and pine cone shooting it is essentially perfect.

 

[Bazoo]

I do have a copy of the lee RN mould. It is designated 429-240-2R. I need to lap mine a bit, as it is small on one section. I haven't tried it yet because of this. I just remembered, I don't have a RN top punch either. I wonder if I can make do with my 374 tp until I source a 44 RN tp...

 

[RealGun]

In my Flat Top the 240 gr shot high at 50 feet with the rear sight all the way down, so I have been shooting 200 gr ever since, currently 7.3 gr Unique.

 

[Bazoo]

My 240 grainers are pretty well to poa but the lee 432-265-rf, which actually weighs 270 is a bit high. But I don't have my sight bottomed out. I ain't moved it actually to see if I could get poi to match poa with the heavier bullets yet.