Not at all new to reloading, but new at working up loads for .44 Special.

Missouri Bullet Co., my favorite vendor, has 240 gr. bullets in both RNFP and Truncated Cone FP styles. Do you find one or the other more accurate? Or is it just a style preference without any advantage one way or another.

Thanks for any info.

I get most all my bullets from Missouri Bullet Co.

I've never tried the TCFP, but I've tried the RNFP with very good results.

However, I like the .44 Elmer K, 240gr SWC better than any of their other .44 bullets.

I think it's probably more of a style thing than any difference in accuracy.
But some guns do like certain bullet styles better.

For something "different" in the .44 special, try a full wadcutter style bullet like these offered by Rim Rock Bullets.

.44 200 gr. DEWC FB per 500 .44 200 gr. DEWC FB [DEWC] - $46.00 : Rim Rock Bullets, Premium Cast Lead Bullets

Very accurate out to 25 yards from my model 29.

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From what I understand, the TCFP should have better ballistics compared to the RNFP. I usually use them in my revolvers and a couple of semi autos as well. My older semi's stay with the RNFP cause they feed better in them.

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HBWC's are the way to go with the 44spl.



They can be seated to different seaing depths to suit the pistol they're being loaded for & they make some of the best hollow points on the planet.

Those are nice, Forrest. Did you cast them yourself?

Yes, very nice. Are the HBWCs cast yourself or purchased? What are your loads with these?

Thank you, I cast them myself, their 220g hbwc. You can see a difference in color from the cast bullets to the sized/lubed bullets. As you can see I’m tumble lubing them, tumble lube/1 grease groove & tumble lube/2 grease groove bullets & sized them to .430.

I’m going to do test loads with the bullets lubed the 3 different ways & set to the 3 different depths and be testing several different target powders, namely:
Bulleye, Clays, WW231, WW452 & Titegroup along with hot loads of Universal clays and an excellent cowboy action powder International Clays.

So far with just feeler test loads for the different powders I’ve gotten some surprisingly good groups of an inch or less for 6 shot groups @50ft. There’s no data for these bullets so I was testing what I thought would be light loads with the different seating depths.

So far 4.8g of Bullseye with the bullet seated/crimped short (1st grease groove) & 5.0g of International Clays with the bullet seated/crimped in the 2nd grease groove were impressive accuracy. A hot load of 5.5g of WW452 with the bullets seated/crimped in the 2nd grease groove produced groups that could be covered with a quarter @50ft. These bullets seem to perform better with a heavy crimp just like their 38 hbwc cousins.

I’m a huge fan of the 44spl & have owned/shot them for years. The 44spl seems to do best with bullets in the 180g to 220g weight range. I’ve shot heavier bullets in them but the bullet speeds really drop off with the heavier 240g/240g+ bullets. One of my favorite loads for the 44spl is a 180g WC (Lyman 429348) & 6.5g of Universal Clays or the same bullet with 4.8g of WW231.



I tell you what I don’t get is why Rim Rock Kid would be selling their 200g dewc bullets with a BHN of 15. That’s an extremely hard bullet to try to produce target velocity loads with.

I have use the 245 gr. Keith style LSWC and a 185 gr LWC both from Lyman molds whose numbers I have forgotten. Both are very accurate and the 185 gr. makes a very low recoil load.

I agree about the Rim Rocks. Another poster referred to them and I checked them out, but 15 is too hard for the target loads I generally shoot. They should have them in 10 or 12 in my opinion.