44 mag plinking loads with titegroup

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It finally happened! I ran out of my last pound of Unique!:(

Does anyone have a proven mid power titegroup load for a 240 Keith style bullet for 44 magnum?
My gun is a 4.25" 629 S&W.
Years ago I was playing around with titegroup in 44 mag and never really found a load I liked.

I do load 4.8 grains in 44 special and that seems to work ok!

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I have 4 lbs of titegroup left, that's why I would like to use it!
Believe me, I would be all over some 2400 or any other slower bulkier powder if I could get some!
 
Hodgdon's website has Tightgroup loads with the 240 grain cast bullets.

And the Speer #14 manual has short barreled loads with fast powders like Tightgroup but uses 200 grain Gold Dot bullets.

And you can't make flower arrangements from hard cast Keith type bullets.

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I managed to stretch my last pound of Unique, still have a bit left and now have a choice of Tightgroup,Bullseye or Power Pistol.
I just moved so can't do any reloading til I get set up again..kind of hope some Unique will show up so I don't have to work up new loads.
 
If you can score some Trail Boss, I'd say try some of that. I had a nice plinking round in a Ruger SBH with 6.2gr. with a 220gr. LSWC bullet. I can't imagine a 240gr. bullet would behave much differently.
 
Hodgdon lists a max load for a 240 cast round at 6.6 gns of Titegroup and a velocity of 1060fps. That's a pretty soft load already if you still want to get a magnum like kick of any sort. It's also well down in the pressure at only 17,300 CUP. You could easily go up a little from there.

To try this out I did load some 240 LRNFP style bullets with 7gns of Titegroup. I found them punchy to shoot but pleasant on my hands. The sort of round I could shoot all day long from the Ruger Super Blackhawk.

I can't comment on how accurate a round it is because as a result of this and some other loads I found that my SBH has some bore constriction right at the threading in the frame. It's something that apparently isn't uncommon in the SBH. I need to hand lap the rifling or go through a series of fire lapping to ease the constriction before the gun will shoot better groups. As it sits now it shoot EVERYTHING with about a 7 inch group at 20 yards. Hardly a stellar performance.

The guys above are right about this amount of powder being a light dusting in the cases. But if you can meter it out so it drops charges with a small weight variation I think it'll work out. Titegroup is one of those powders that doesn't seem to care where it sits in the casing. So it's both possible and likely that if there is an issue of muzzle velocity consistency producing a drop in accuracy that it won't be enough to matter for someone shooting a hand held gun... .unless they are a potential Olympic target shooting team member.
 
handofzeus said:
Titegroup is a tad 'fast' for accurately measured reduced loads IMO. Why not try a slower powder that takes up more volume. Easier to fine-tune. Either of the 4227s come to mind.
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Fast powders are precisely what you want for reduced loads, unless you want to go really slow, like a case full of H335, for example. The downside is that you end up burning a lot of powder to accomplish the same thing that a much smaller charge could.

Hodgdon or IMR 4227 are for full-power loads if you look at the data on Hodgdon's website.

metalbender said:
I use 5.5 gr Titegroup in my Ruger Super bh and also run them through the Ranch Hand.
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This has also worked well for me.
 
Skinny 1950 said:
I managed to stretch my last pound of Unique, still have a bit left and now have a choice of Tightgroup,Bullseye or Power Pistol.
I just moved so can't do any reloading til I get set up again..kind of hope some Unique will show up so I don't have to work up new loads.
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The Power Pistol would be the one to use if you want a load similar to Unique.
 
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