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Both Remington and Winchester loaded smokeless 44 Russian, Remington in their kleanbore line, which they began offering in 1927. It says in regular English on both boxes from the manufacturer designed for s&w revolvers.

Yes but would any ammunition manufacturer even load a modern .44 Russian cartridge that wasn't cas levels of low? And the smokeless I've shot through it are older Fiocchi rounds

Then why were smokeless powder loads even offered? Did they not know the danger back then? I've read that Winchester offered a smokeless 44 Russian load as early as 1899.

Thanks! Like I said smokeless loads were available when this revolver was purchased by the Japanese so I don't see why there would be a problem with factory loaded standard ammo.

Howdy everyone, I have in my possession a New Model No 3 in 44 Russian. "Restored" at some point in it's life and S&W letter claims 1186 (if I remember off the top of my head) and 1915 shipment to Japan. Now at this point smokeless 44 Russian cartridges were being loaded and probably fired in...