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every time I stop here I wonder if the gun is going to fail before your wrists do. Lol

Hottest I've put through a 629 was some old 240 Keith types over 18.5 of 2400.

3 cylinders was all the fun I wanted, and kept the remainder for guys who wanted the Dirty Harry experience.
 
Mark-II said:
every time I stop here I wonder if the gun is going to fail before your wrists do. Lol

Hottest I've put through a 629 was some old 240 Keith types over 18.5 of 2400.

3 cylinders was all the fun I wanted, and kept the remainder for guys who wanted the Dirty Harry experience.
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The IMR rounds are pretty easy on everything but the H-110 ones are tiring. Physically and mentally. And it is a heavy chunk of metal to hold.
But there is nothing like the smell of nitroglycerin in the morning.......smells like hmmmmmm.......:)
 
Still alive said:
Dirtybarry,
You gotta have the worst flinch around! Or you're Chuck Norris's dad!
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LOL, one drill that I do to get away from flinching is to pick some of each load, mix them up and then load them as randomly as I can so I don't know what kind is coming up next. Kinda weirds people out when there's a Ka-Boom, then a just a Boom, Boom followed by a Ka-fricking-BOOM!, etc. But it seems to work.
 
Another 350 rounds. (2952 so far) 200 of the IMR4227's, 100 of the 23.5gr H-110 and 50 of the 30.5gr H-110 180gr loads. Ow, for some reason my arm is a wee bit sore.
And the answer to the question that nobody asked is 89 degrees Celsius. That's the hottest spot I could find which is the barrel just down from the forcing cone. The forcing cone itself never went over 40 degrees,
The mid-point of the cylinder never went over 60. But it feels way hotter, however I think the measuring instrument is accurate.
 
dirtybarry said:
The IMR rounds are pretty easy on everything but the H-110 ones are tiring. Physically and mentally. And it is a heavy chunk of metal to hold.
But there is nothing like the smell of nitroglycerin in the morning.......smells like hmmmmmm.......:)
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I put 140 240XTPs over 24.8gr H110 through my Blackhawk in 1 session last week. Worst problem was my trigger finger was very tired. Not sure if I could double the rounds and still function usefully.
 
emerson said:
I put 140 240XTPs over 24.8gr H110 through my Blackhawk in 1 session last week. Worst problem was my trigger finger was very tired. Not sure if I could double the rounds and still function usefully.
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6hrs later and my whole upper body hurts. I think I've discovered what constitutes "too much".
Also, I forgot about having to shim the loosened rubber grips. Probably didn't help accuracy at all or maybe made zero difference,
 
Hey, even Elmer Keith limited his self abuse with the 44 ;)

I read someplace something like 600 rounds per YEAR! lol


On the previous note I also have found 4227 to be milder as compared with other slow powders. Do you also see a lot of residue with it? Unburnt powder mess and such?

I hate it for that. It gets back into the gubbins and mucks things up...
 
dirtybarry said:
Another 350 rounds. (2952 so far) 200 of the IMR4227's, 100 of the 23.5gr H-110 and 50 of the 30.5gr H-110 180gr loads. Ow, for some reason my arm is a wee bit sore.
And the answer to the question that nobody asked is 89 degrees Celsius. That's the hottest spot I could find which is the barrel just down from the forcing cone. The forcing cone itself never went over 40 degrees,
The mid-point of the cylinder never went over 60. But it feels way hotter, however I think the measuring instrument is accurate.
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If you are trying to measure with a IR on that stainless it won't read right. Need to put something like a piece of flat black tape on it.
 
Mark-II said:
Hey, even Elmer Keith limited his self abuse with the 44 ;)

I read someplace something like 600 rounds per YEAR! lol


On the previous note I also have found 4227 to be milder as compared with other slow powders. Do you also see a lot of residue with it? Unburnt powder mess and such?

I hate it for that. It gets back into the gubbins and mucks things up...
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Pffttt, 600? I thought he was the.44 god. Are you sure there aren't a few zeros missing? Maybe if he used some of that lovely IMR4227! :p
I like this powder and it seems to burn pretty cleanly. My hands get very dirty shooting this no matter what ammo or powder but I think that's a function of quantity over quality
 
Reeferman said:
If you are trying to measure with a IR on that stainless it won't read right. Need to put something like a piece of flat black tape on it.
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I had concerns about that, too. So I checked powder blackened areas of the frame and inside the barrel, cylinder and even the black rear sight.
And nothing really stood out as being inconsistent but I'll take my pyrometer next time (if I remember...) and compare readings.
 
plinker 777 said:
Emissivity. IR will only give a general reading rather than an accurate one, but they're handy.
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I forget the specs on this particular Raytec model but as I recall they were within a few percent, close enough for this and better than that painful sizzling sound that I used before. :redface:
 
I'm sure S&W will replace the gun that blown using Fiocchi ammo, and not the Dirtybarry one, who failed using reload, even if it show the same fracture. It remind me the time when i was installing remote starters, every car dealers will say that every electrical troubles was the remote starter fault. Until we take it out of the cars and then only they will try to resolve problems.
 
Halger280HVMag said:
You load .44 Magnum ammo using Nitroglycerin??? :sok2G:
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Technically speaking, yes. Single base smokeless powders are mostly nitrocellulose and double base powders are a mix of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
So the smell of burnt H110 reminds me of being around fuel dragsters. Hmmm, that might be why I like the concussive blast too.
If that happened about 4000 times a minute, it'd be like leaning on the rail at half track.
 
dirtybarry said:
Technically speaking, yes. Single base smokeless powders are mostly nitrocellulose and double base powders are a mix of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
So the smell of burnt H110 reminds me of being around fuel dragsters. Hmmm, that might be why I like the concussive blast too.
If that happened about 4000 times a minute, it'd be like leaning on the rail at half track.
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Atta boy!
(FYI: They're turning about 8,500 at the 660 mark. )
 
dirtybarry said:
Technically speaking, yes. Single base smokeless powders are mostly nitrocellulose and double base powders are a mix of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
So the smell of burnt H110 reminds me of being around fuel dragsters. Hmmm, that might be why I like the concussive blast too.
If that happened about 4000 times a minute, it'd be like leaning on the rail at half track.
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Correct, give that man a cookie!

FYI triple base has nitroguanidine added, things I learn on my QL6A :p
 
I picked up a 1991 mod 29-5 (endurance package) waiting for transfer now, I plan to load some medium, medium hot loads for it. I wonder how long it will last. I went for the -5 since it has the endurance package Smith and Wesson started doing that time. Still has a square but frame and hammer mounted firing pin no mim parts and target everything.
 
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