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04-20-2024, 08:33 AM
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696 and 200gr wadcutters
Every day new guns appear, we all love looking at those new and latest ideas. Then I look over at my 696 and still feel confident in my choice of protection. Solid, weighty, some would say, Perfection. My choice, my lifestyle. Pinker, yes. Cost of enjoyment, I never even consider it an issue.
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04-20-2024, 11:24 AM
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I load 200 grain semi wadcuuters for my 696. great fun to shoot with that load
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04-20-2024, 11:39 AM
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Whats the load you are running w the WC? And the velocity if you have it?
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04-20-2024, 12:44 PM
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Underwood Hardcast wadcutters, 200gr. Advertised at 950fps. Great for all day shooting, ripping nasty holes in tight rolled old coats and perfect holes on paper targets
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04-20-2024, 07:40 PM
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Sounds like perfection to me. I just might carry those in my 624!
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04-20-2024, 08:21 PM
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Me and 3rd Gens
It was around the year 2005 that I found it very difficult to find 44 special ammo for my 696.
Back story, like so many others back in the 80's I was lured in by the Model 29 with 8-3/8ths inch bbl. I carried it for years in a Bianchi x-15 shoulder holster. It was concealable only under a sport jacket, as Eastwood did in his film, so did I.
When a man showed me the 696 at the range one day, 2001, I thought it was perfection. I had come to believe, right or wrong you tell me, that the extra powder of the 44 Mag needs more barrel in order to burn but a 44 spl. with a three-inch barrel was perfect. I bought mine off Auction Arms, now Gunauction.com, for $325.
It was great! Ricky Evans did the trigger work, and it shoots Silvertips like it knows where I want 'em to go. But around 2005 I stopped seeing ammo in stores. You could find 44 Mag and 45 ACP but never 44 spl. I was told then that the caliber was obsolete. I needed to go to the 45 ACP. So, I did. I got the S&W Model 457, which was recommended by Mas Ayoob in Combat Handguns. Been very happy with it, and I shoot it very well, if I do say so meself, (ahem, ahem) and now I have a nice collection of 3rd Gens.
We have had several ammo crisis situations since then. We are no longer surprised by it anymore. The next years, while carrying that 457, I continued to buy 44 spl ammo whenever I saw it. I have plenty now, (no never enough!) and every store always has a few boxes in stock, so, I roll my eyes now when somebody says a caliber is "gonna be obsolete." I have a Lee loader and some primed sized brass for it, etc. I will never sell my 696. I will carry it tomorrow in your honor, Ghost Pete! With that gun I can shoot the wing off a gnat...in flight...and with the gnat flying too!
Kind Regards!
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04-21-2024, 08:20 AM
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My go to load for many years in .44 Special is a 200gr. RNFP Cowboy bullet over 7.5gr. of Unique, I shoot this in .44 Magnum cases in my 4" M/629. It is a pleasant load to shoot, accurate as well, the old Skeeter Skelton load updated with the Cowboy bullet.
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04-22-2024, 04:43 PM
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I’m cooking some coated skeeter’s for the 624 as we speak. My first attempt at PC. Turned out pretty good.
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04-22-2024, 05:02 PM
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I got me a 214gr HBWC mold from Miltech. Got 100 stuffed and waiting for decent weather to touch of a few in 24-3, and 50 loaded up in magnum cases to try in 29-2s. You can switch core pins and pour solids.
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04-24-2024, 01:22 PM
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The .44 Special is by far my all-time favorite cartridge and has been for years. For awhile now I carry my 4 inch M624 100% everywhere I go. A Simply Rugged pancake worn IWB is actually very comfortable for this gun.
Always 200gr Speer Gold Dots.
I'd like to try the Underwood ammo. Will have to order some.
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