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Old 06-07-2012, 03:11 AM
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Are you using regular or Magnum primers? Those loads seem light......I am sure that they are great to shoot. I was worried about going too light. Again, I am shooting a 240 gr. JSP so I need a little more powder for the Jacketed as well as the slightly lower weight although, the weight is not that much different to effect the charge.

Glenn
The great thing about handloading is that you can load mild or
max and anything in between. If you own several guns in the
same caliber you could work up a different load for each one of
them using the same tools and components. I have five .44
mag revolvers, a three screw Ruger SBH 7 1/2", a Ruger
Bisley 7 1/2", a Ruger stainless Red Hawk 5 1/2", a Ruger
Vaquero 4 5/8" and a S&W 29-2 4". The SBH and RH see
mostly full power loads with cast or jacketed bullets because
I use them for hunting, the Bisley will probably get mostly
mid range loads, 1050-1100 fps, because that beautiful low
hammer spur takes chunks of flesh out of my thumb with
full power loads, I like mid range, 1000 fps, in the Vaquero
and the 29-2 will see mostly 830-950 fps loads because I want it to last forever. The idea that one is compelled to
load to factory specs of what is written on the barrel of his
gun is nonsense. Anyway, I think you only have to worry
about going too light if you use jacketed bullets. I try a mild
or mid range load with a standard primer and if ES is not low
I switch to a mag primer. I find that 231 is more consistant
with most any load, even 38 spl, with mag primers. Don't
underestimate mid range loads in the .44 mag. Read what
Brian Pearce has to say on this subject in Handloader mag.
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