Posted: 9/22/2009 8:10:45 AM EDT
| 44 mag brass is scarce can you shoot 44 special out of a D E |
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You would have to reload it pretty strong. One of the guys here worked up a reliable load if I remember correctly, i'm sure he'll be in soon.
I'll see if I can find the thread. If you interested I have a bunch of once fired .44 mag cases from Winchester and Federal. Mostly brass, but some nickel too. |
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44 special doesn't have enough power to even eject the casing–– tried it. The only commercial ammo I tried in mine was Winchester White Box. After that didn't work well at all, I started experimenting with handloads for it. I finally ended up with 22.1gn of Vihtavuori N110 behind a 240 grain Hornady XTP, with CCI magnum primers. It cycles the gun very reliably, snaps that action back and forth with no problem, has very tolerable recoil for the advertised velocity (QuickLOAD says it's just over 1400FPS) and N110 is really clean.
Just my 2 cents. There ya' go. That is a post from ophidia, first thread on top of the second page. |
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You would have to reload it pretty strong. One of the guys here worked up a reliable load if I remember correctly, i'm sure he'll be in soon. I'll see if I can find the thread. If you interested I have a bunch of once fired .44 mag cases from Winchester and Federal. Mostly brass, but some nickel too. interested send me some details look at this gunbroker moron link |
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I had suggested using .44 Spl. brass, loaded to the same OAL as .44 Mag. here. Everyone cried and ran away.
The biggest concern was the possibility of getting one of your hot rounds in a gun chambered for .44 Spl. The brass should be able to handle the pressures just fine. It's actually fairly common for IPSC, ICORE, and bowling pin shooters to use .38 Spl. brass loaded to .357 pressures and lengths. Their reason was to make quicker reloads, as the shorter empty cases clear the chambers sooner. I've even heard of some people using .38 S&W brass for this same reason. I've got a handful loaded up, but haven't had a chance to try them in the DE yet. These are 300 gr. bullets. I don't know if any of the 240 gr. bullets have the second crimp groove, but they may work just as well anyway. 
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| as long as the pressures are the same, it should cycle. If you want to use over the counter .44spl, buy a set of recoil springs from eagle arms, go to the range and fire 1rd at a time and cut the springs 1 coil at a time until they cycle the sp. rounds at that point you have springs for low power (special) rounds and the standard springs will work for the magnum rounds. |
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Quoted: I had suggested using .44 Spl. brass, loaded to the same OAL as .44 Mag. here. Everyone cried and ran away. The biggest concern was the possibility of getting one of your hot rounds in a gun chambered for .44 Spl. The brass should be able to handle the pressures just fine. It's actually fairly common for IPSC, ICORE, and bowling pin shooters to use .38 Spl. brass loaded to .357 pressures and lengths. Their reason was to make quicker reloads, as the shorter empty cases clear the chambers sooner. I've even heard of some people using .38 S&W brass for this same reason. I've got a handful loaded up, but haven't had a chance to try them in the DE yet. These are 300 gr. bullets. I don't know if any of the 240 gr. bullets have the second crimp groove, but they may work just as well anyway. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/GarrettJ/100_1012.jpg That's interesting. I had never heard of that before.  |