I have just obtained a Mod. 29 S & W (4" bbl.) and want to load some .44 special type of soft loads in .44 mag cases. Does anyone have any experience, recommendations or tips. Thanks...
I'm open to suggestions. I have never loaded for handguns and will have to get powder, primers and bullets. I'd like some powder that would do double duty for .45 colt, if possible. I haven't even looked in the books, yet. Just thought I'd see if I could borrow some experience...
cheap and easy is bullseye. can be loaded in pretty much every handgun out there. downside is its DIRTY your gun is gonna look like you been in a coal mine lol. Next would be 231. lots cleaner. but a little more $. My number one powders are the Vihtavuori family. Super clean, tite groups, but are more $ than 231
My light 44mag load is 7.0gr of Win 231 with a 255gr. Keith lead bullet.
PS: I agree...... NO light 44mag and PIGS....... While I have never shot at a wild hog with anything, I would want the BIGGEST... BADEST round for those thick-skinned bad-ass mofos...............
thanks guys, that gives me some starting points better than just something from a book. at least I'll know what to pick up when I get back to Van's. regards...
I may have gotten in the .44 mag. mode a little prematurely, seems the seller on gunbroker, in Natchez is not a FFL holder and doesn't want me to come pick up the pistol. My FFL questions how he is going to get it here since UPS, nor USPS will take a pistol from a non-FFL and I don't think he could insure it without revealing the contents of the package. The only reason I bid was that he was close enough to go get it. Any comments (I'm sure there are some)?
The UPS place here won't take a pistol. I tried to ship one back to Taurus for service several months ago and they said they wouldn't even take a magazine. The post office finally took it since I was shipping back to factory. Maybe a Colt is different, ought to be, anyway. Anyhow, I'm not going to send several hundred bucks to someone for a pistol to be shipped with questionable (or no) insurance, just sayin'. By the way, I'm over 21 several times...
If you are shipping within the state, you don't need to ship either from or to an FFL. This applies only to handguns and rifles, not to Class III, of course. You have to use a common carrier such as FedEx or UPS, but intrastate shipments are legal.
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