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and loaded with 22 grains 2400 in same Remington cases, bullets cast one to ten tin and lead, average of ten sbots with each load, velocity 1410 feet: average pressure 37,220 P.S.I. Bullets also sized .429" and groove diameter of barrel .429 for bolli loads.
These meticulous laboratory chronograph tests prove conclusi\cly that my load of 22 grains 2400 may be safely increased to 23 grains with hard onc-lo-ten bullet.-- of my design sized .429". The tests also show that the greater pressure of Dr. Nippe's variaLion of my bullet weighing 250.4 grains boosted velocities from an average of 1385 feel to 1110 feet. A softer bullet would also increase pressures e\en further. 1 belie\e. with either load. My bullet, cast one to 16 tin and lead, usually weighs 250 grains from most moulds, and bullets from Wislcr Western Arms Co. as cast by G. E. Murphy usually run right on the no>e at 250 grains weight. As the factories like lo hold pressures down to 40.000 pounds for the 44 Magnum, I feel these loads of mine with 22 grains 2400 are
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a safe standard [or the hand loader and are definitely more accurate than the factory load with a soft 210 grain bullet.
An interesting experiment I carried out was to pull ten Remington loads and resize the cases, then replace the original factory powder charge and scat and crimp m\ 250 grains Keith bullet on the original Remington factory load. The one to 16 or harder Keith bullets that weighed ten grains more than the factory part-jacket slug actually developed much less pressure. I would estimate pressures at 5,000 pounds less than factory, clearly indicating the effect of soft bullets on pressures. The Remington bullets are soft and would not bold the rilling were it noL for their part jacket which co\ers not only the complete base band hut also the lower lubricating groove. This jacket is \ery thin (as it should be), upsets lo fill the chamber mouth nicely, and is quite accurate to extreme ranges; hut the fact remains that it develops higher pressures with its soft bullet content and .431" diameter.
I now have many reports of big game killing with the 11 Magnum, both Remington loads and hand load-- with my bullet and 22 grains 2400. One bear at 50 yards, both shoulders broken and died instantly. One bear at 123 yards, one shoulder broken and out through lungs on off side. (Bear rolled down the mountain and was dead when approached.) One moose, a big bull in Alaska, hit behind left shoulder with Keith hand load, through heart and out through flesh of right shoulder. Bull humped up and ran 50 yards, then stood a few seconds before going down to stay.
I have killed three deer with the 44 Magnum cartridge, one at 20 yards head shot through brain from 6'/l>" S & W, one at 25 yards (another brain shot), and one at over 600 yards, hit once in right jaw. then hit again broadside through both lungs and out as the deer turned broadside up the mountain. This deer was hit first by a rifleman using a 300 Magnum. I shot at such crazy long range only to help slop a wounded animal. My first shot was low. my second shot also low at the bucks heels, but the next two shots, fired with a higher hold, slopped him. Even at such extreme range, the big sixgun slug. Remington factory load, cut a 60 caliber hole through the deer.
Bob Moody of Moody's Reloading Service, Helena, Mont., has been killing his buck for several years with a .44 Special Smith & Wesson and my heavy 235 grain hollow point backed by 18.5 grains 2400. The .44 Magnum loads, both factory and hand loads, are far superior in killing power. 1 believe it best for all hand loaders to stick to my recommended loads for the .14 Magnum and let the factories produce the full maximum power loads, as they luxe the proper equipment to test for both pressure and velocity and it is best for all hand loaders to stay on the safe side. Incidentally, my 250 grain bullets cast hard (one lo 16 to one lo ten tin and lead) penetrate deeper than do the factory bullets of much softer metal which upset and expand more than my hard bullets.
.44 Magnum Carbine or Rifle
Ward Koozer. Douglas. Arizona, can make up first cla^s .44 Magnum rides or carbines from the Model 1892 Winchester in .38-40 or .44-40 calibers only, lie pulls the old barrel, then takes a Model 1894 Winchester barrel or carbine barrel and rebores it from .25-3.5 or .30-30 or .38-55 to .44 Magnum, chambers it for the latter cartridge, then fits it lo the Model '92 slock and action. The action is adequate for the load and this makes one of the handiest little lever rifles for this great pistol cartridge. We had Koozer make one in carbine form with full length magazine, and it nicely holds ten rounds in the magazine and shoots vers well. Ours was made up from a worn .30-30 barrel. The better nickel sleel Model 94 barrels, when worn out in their original calibers, make excellent rebores to .44 Magnum.
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