Length of .44 240 Grain LSWC?

[Alk8944]

The two critical factors for a bullet are weight and seating depth, not OAL. Seating depth is easily measured directly assuming you are seating to the crimp cannellure, it is the distance from the cannellure to the base.

Loading manual velocities for a load are nothing better than an approximation based on what they shot the load in. Trying to compare those velocities with what your gun with your loads produces is totally futile. There may be several hundred FPS difference +/- with your gun. If you have a chronograph record the velocity. ES, SD. and energy you got in your gun and don't worry about "book" numbers!

 

[243winxb]

44 magnum 240 gr lswc

Forgive my ignorance, but I have no idea what to make of that webpage.

The link has about 5 photos of #7 powder & who manufactured it.

Most years were made by - IMI, or Israel Military Industries, is a former Israeli weapons manufacturer that produced firearms, ammunition, and military technology.

Later St Marks makes # 7 now.
Hodgdon just copies data thats already available.

Shoot for accuracy & watch for pressure signs.

 

[243winxb]

LRP ??

231 seems like a very strange choice to me also. Are you sure it said that?

231 is in pistol data. Wrong powder for magnum loads.

 

[TheTinMan]

LRP ?? Why a rifle primer?

231 seems like a very strange choice to me also. Are you sure it said that?

Fortunately I am more meticulous when reloading than typing. A large rifle primer would protrude from the case head and be VERY dangerous in a lever action rifle's tubular magazine. I used large pistol primers.

W-231 seems like a very strange choice to me as well. Hodgdon's reloading data website this morning:

.44 Remington Magnum PISTOL 8.25" barrel 240 grain lead semiwadcutter cast bullet
Starting load 5.5 grains 800 fps
Maximum load 11.0 grains 1,334 fps

.44 Remington Magnum RIFLE 20" barrel 240 grain lead semiwadcutter cast bullet
Starting load 5.5 grains 907 fps
Maximum load 11.0 grains 1,437 fps

W-231 is a very fast burning powder and far from ideal for .44 Magnum in a rifle. However, I have a metric **** ton of that powder and this is the only place I found published data for both rifle and pistol for .44 Magnum using the same powder.

 

[TheTinMan]

So that was eight years ago. How many .44s have you loaded in the last eight years? I was wondering how big your stash was.

Approximately 2,200 44 bullets. Over 3,000 .38 158 grain bullets and I forget how many .45 200 grain SWC bullets too. I developed good loads for the .38s and .45s back then.

It was more like 15 years ago. I worked up loads for .44 Special using these bullets and W-231, 2400 and TrailBoss but not .44 Magnum. My world turned upside down in 2014 and I didn't get back into reloading for at least 4 years after that. Since then I've loaded 9mm Luger, 9x23 Winchester, .38 Special, 45 Colt, and lots of 45 ACP but no 44 Magnum. I've also done some work with 30-30 and 45-70. Too many cartridges!

 

[TheTinMan]

The link has about 5 photos of #7 powder & who manufactured it.

Most years were made by - IMI, or Israel Military Industries, is a former Israeli weapons manufacturer that produced firearms, ammunition, and military technology.

Later St Marks makes # 7 now.
Hodgdon just copies data thats already available.

Shoot for accuracy & watch for pressure signs.

I am not able to PM you so thank you for your insights.

If the powder jug label says "Made in the U.S." that should be St. Marks production, correct?

I wish I knew how to attach thumbnails since I don't want to take up photo album space for screen shots off Hodgdon's site.