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Liberal handgun ban convinced me to buy my last handgun. S&W 29-2 with 6” barrel
After looking through my reloading manuals, I noticed that there are recipes for 4 powders I have on the shelf. Titegroup, 2400, Unique and 4227.
Anyone reloading 44mag with any of these powders?
If so, which projectiles have given you the best accuracy?
 
I've put a few hundred thousand downrange, mainly in Silhouette shooting to 200 yards and always preferred the Hornady Sil 240 grain bullet. 2400 will do you fine with 19.5 to 23 grains. Don't need to go higher for accuracy and why abuse your gun and yourself. Best alternative, and what I prefer, would be WW296 in my opinion.
 
I used 23.5 gr of H110 with a 240 gr projectile for IHMSA silhouette.

I would not load anything up from the posts here without verifying the numbers with a reliable reloading manual.

H110 and Win296 give highest velocities according to the Hornady manual.
 
Titegroup is a great economic powder for lighter loads. I use 6-7gr with 200 and 240gr lead bullets. It gets really touchy near max though. Use the slower powders if you want the "magnum" experience.
 
Both 4227 and 2400 are good 44 mag powders BUT H110 /W296 will give higher FPS - LiL GUN is a Great 44 mag powder too ! RJ

My Fav 44 mag load is 21.5 grs of H110 with a 300 gr Cast or Jacketed bullet in my SS RSBH ! RJ

By the way that load is to HOT for a Wimpy SW m29 to handle many of !
 
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I’m not really looking for flame throwing howitzers. Nor am I looking for popcorn puff loads. Something in the middle ground.
I have lots of powder, but what I’m more interested in is choice of projectiles since I need to buy those. I see a lot of people like 240gn. Now bullet shape, that’s where I get lost in jargon. I like the idea of cast lead for economical reasons, although campro has plated for damn near the same price.
Any advice would be appreciated
Cheers
 
I just got a order in from bullet barn for 200,240,300 grain round nose lead bullets. The round nose load better thru my Ruger 77/44 rifle, I save the semi wad cutters for my 629 .I have not notice any difference in accuracy between the round nose and the SWC .
Larry
 
slarsen47 said:
I used 23.5 gr of H110 with a 240 gr projectile for IHMSA silhouette.

I would not load anything up from the posts here without verifying the numbers with a reliable reloading manual.

H110 and Win296 give highest velocities according to the Hornady manual.
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According to Hodgdon H110 is identical to Winchester 296 Agreed higher velocities than 2400 generate. My only complaint with 2400 is it is filthy.
 
I’ve shot a lot of 240!Campro bullets in 44 mag, and 250 Campro in 45LC. H110 was good for max loads, 2400 was fine a little lower down the BOOM scale, and mid table load of Titegroup cut the velocity to 700ish FPS for the MIL.
 
This load might be more powder puffy than you want but I shot a ton of the Lyman 245 Grain Semi-Wadcutter (mould #429421) over 4 grains of Alliant Red Dot and it was plenty accurate for 50 foot bullseye shooting. Since TiteGroup is a similarly fast powder I'm guessing that a powder charge in 5 grain range would give you a nice light load that even your wife or kids could shoot.

The Hodgdon reloading site shows a start load of 4.7 gr. of Titegroup at 801 fps & 11,100 CUP for a 240 gr. cast LSWC.
 
remington jim said:
Both 4227 and 2400 are good 44 mag powders BUT H110 /W296 will give higher FPS - LiL GUN is a Great 44 mag powder too ! RJ

My Fav 44 mag load is 21.5 grs of H110 with a 300 gr Cast or Jacketed bullet in my SS RSBH ! RJ

By the way that load is to HOT for a Wimpy SW m29 to handle many of !
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Wait, are you serious? I'm chucking 240 gr plated Campro downrange over 23.5 grains of H110. Sure, she's spicy, but explode my S&W Model 29-10 6.5" spicy-hot? Developed the loading to run my Desert Eagle and thought "sure, why not" for the revolver.
 
Neutrino said:
Wait, are you serious? I'm chucking 240 gr plated Campro downrange over 23.5 grains of H110. Sure, she's spicy, but explode my S&W Model 29-10 6.5" spicy-hot? Developed the loading to run my Desert Eagle and thought "sure, why not" for the revolver.
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I don't think he's suggesting catastrophic failure. More likely suggesting that a steady diet of top tier high pressure loads might lead to gas cutting, premature wear making things loose or similar issues.

Look for information from the heyday of handgun silhouette shooting in the 80's. People really tested handguns to failure trying to bring down the big targets.
 
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