I'm looking for some input on some pretty large discrepancies in data. If anyone can run these through QuickLoad, that'd be awesome too. My girlfriend bought me a Taurus 445L for Christmas and I've been working on some loads for it.
Looking at my manuals as well as a recent thread on the 44Spl, I'm seeing a pretty big gap. One of the posters in the other thread did chrono his load using 9.0gr of AA#5 under a 240gr LSWC @ 803FPS.
Accurate Arms: 6.1-6.8 (2000, 2002 Manuals/Current Website)
Lee: 6.1-6.8 (Second Edition, probably transposed from AA)
Speer: 8.4-9.3 (#13, #14 Manuals)
Hornady: 8.9 (7th Edition, Via PM, unable to verify)
As you can see there is quite a bit of a jump. I realize that there may be better suited powders for this cartridge, but I use it for most of my pistol loads so I'd like to keep it to that. I fired 50rds from 6.1-6.5 and they did feel rather wimpy compared to the Buffalo Bore and C.O.P loads shot on the same outing.
I'm not looking to abuse the gun, if I wanted flat out velocity I'd have gone magnum. That said, I'm looking to see the true potential of the caliber.
Thanks and Happy New Year
Looking at my manuals as well as a recent thread on the 44Spl, I'm seeing a pretty big gap. One of the posters in the other thread did chrono his load using 9.0gr of AA#5 under a 240gr LSWC @ 803FPS.
Accurate Arms: 6.1-6.8 (2000, 2002 Manuals/Current Website)
Lee: 6.1-6.8 (Second Edition, probably transposed from AA)
Speer: 8.4-9.3 (#13, #14 Manuals)
Hornady: 8.9 (7th Edition, Via PM, unable to verify)
As you can see there is quite a bit of a jump. I realize that there may be better suited powders for this cartridge, but I use it for most of my pistol loads so I'd like to keep it to that. I fired 50rds from 6.1-6.5 and they did feel rather wimpy compared to the Buffalo Bore and C.O.P loads shot on the same outing.
I'm not looking to abuse the gun, if I wanted flat out velocity I'd have gone magnum. That said, I'm looking to see the true potential of the caliber.
Thanks and Happy New Year