Good powder for .44 Mag

Kazman1960 said:
Wow . You guys were not kidding about H110 being hard or impossible to find . Gonna have to try IMR 4227 and Lil Gun for now I guess .
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i find lilgun provides a bit more recoil then h110 in my 500 mag, but it does burn hotter and get the gun hotter quicker.
 
sawzall said:
I have used IMR4227, H110, Unique, 2400, Blue Dot and Lil Gun. I always go back to Lil Gun for the max power hunting loads and Blue Dot for the medium stuff. Lil Gun give highest velocities with the heavier bullets and less pressure than H110. Blue Dot gives respectable velocities with moderate ( economical) powder charges. Neither of my go to powders require magnum primers either. I would use Unique or 2400 in place of Blue Dot but they are unobtanium and I have lots of BD on hand. I don't think you said what rifle you have but there are definite strength differences in the actions. The model 92 (clones) being the strongest, Marlin 1894 next and Winchester Model 94 the weakest.
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I have a Chiappa lever action . Nice lightweight rifle .
 
mbogo3 said:
Remember to use magnum primers with Win 296 and or H110 .Obvious but often overlooked with all ball powders..........Harold
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Sorry Harold, but we are 180 degrees apart on magnum primers.
I have had five different 44 magnum revolvers and two different 44 magnum Marlin rifles and I have never used a magnum primer in any of them, even though probably more than 75% percent of the powder used in them was either H110 or W296.
The revolver shooting included a few years of big pistol silhouette competitions, while the Marlin rifle shooting included teaching two grand sons to shoot, using light loads when the little guys started, and gradually increasing the load as they increased in size, until they were using full power loads. All of the powder used for that operation was H110.
Never had an inkling of any kind of problem with standard primers, which I was using with H110 powder before magnum primers even came on the market, in the late 1960s.
Bruce
 
Alliant 2400( if you can find it) and 240grs hard cast bullet. If you are going to load hard cast bullets, I highly recommend, that you are going to use are round nose type bullet rather then a Keith style bullet. You might encounter feeding issues in lever gun.
 
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