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Originally Posted by Rock77
I have several suggestions regarding defense loads for the .44, for the past ten years or so I have been using Vihtavuori
N340 & N350 with great success. The advantages to these powders is they measure great, burn very clean and have proven to be extremely accurate in all of my revolvers.
I have done a great deal of testing with the Hornady 180 gr. and 200 gr. bullets and they are very impressive in all of our testing. Depending on barrel length it is very easy to obtain velocities between 900 fps to over 1100 fps with completely acceptable pressures using both N340 & N350.
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Hi,
this is quite interesting. I use exclusively VV powders (I'm located in Germany, and VV is more easily available than US made powders). I did a .44 spl load with a 200 grs SWC lead bullet (BHN about 16-17) and 8.5 grs of VV 340, OAL of 1,47". This load is on the lower side of the official VV loading manual, but checked by Quickload, it should produce more than 25% overpressure (18300 psi) and deliver nearly 980 fps. Interestingly, the cases do not show any sign of overpressure, the primers only show the indention of the striker pin, and the cases are partly sooted. Still the load feels good to shoot in a Model 696 and is very accurate.
regards
Ulrich