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Old 06-13-2019, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike, SC Hunter View Post
I got "em" both......And like "em" both.
Sure enough! A 250grain Hard Cast "Keith" loaded to 1200fps in an M24 is a sweet spot Load that is entry level .44Mag sauce while still being quite controllable.. yet will still go snout to button-hole on most any pelted predator! Short excerpt from a well known Texas Sheriff & Case in point below...

"The .357 Magnum, with much justification, has enjoyed a heyday since 1935. Smith & Wesson's advertising for this revolver used to proclaim, "The S & W '.357' Magnum Has Far Greater Shock Power Than Any .38, .44, or .45 Ever Tested." With factory loads, this was true. Handloaded, the .44 Special made the .357 - also handloaded to peak performance - eat dust. It was the case of a good big man beating hell out of a good little man.

Basic mathematics made it obvious to experimenters that if the .44 Special were loaded up to its maximum velocity - generally accepted as 1,200 fps at the muzzle with 250-grain bullets - it could skunk the 158-grain .357 slug at 1,500 fps.

Topped with cast bullets in Hollow-point form, both the .357 and .44 Special handloads ran several times higher than their closest competitors on General Julian Hatcher's scale of relative stopping power. Significantly, the .44 had almost double the stopping effect of the .357 when this scale was applied, in spite of its moving at 300 less velocity."

-Charles A. "Skeeter" Skelton
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