dandad wrote:Nice loads.
Thanks. I bought a lot of Longshot a year ago, and a bunch of Xtreme bullets a couple of months ago in a panic. Gotta figure out if I can make these work well, or if I need to sell them off at a loss and replace with Blue Dot and way fewer Noslers. My first trial of Longshot in the 10 mm was disappointing relative to my usual results with Blue Dot, but maybe I was just shooting badly that hour. Longshot in .44 seems OK so far, but I need to test more carefully with the revolvers, so all these will be fired off a crummy rest.
To round out the experiment, I should make a corresponding set of plinking loads with .44 Special or Special +P-level charges of HP-38 or Universal.
I bought some RMR plated .44/240 HPs a while ago, and those shot fine over 4227, but when fired over a near-max charge of Longshot they keyholed and scattered like shotgun pellets! The only case of serious bullet failure I've seen yet. Their .357/125s worked well in my rifle, though. Possibly better than Xtremes, which I only realized right after I bought 1000 more Xtremes.
Its amazing how you have to crimp 44 mags, or the come loose in the cylinder just from firing one. They are a big can of whoop ass in a little package..thats for sure.
It's the biggest caliber I have, so they don't seem little to me.
You can pretty much hide a whole 9 mm cartridge inside empty .44 brass.
For me, the .43 Magnum is
just excessive enough, without being excessively excessive. And nothing exceeds like excess!
IMR4227: Zero to 900 in 0.001 seconds
I'm only killing paper and my self-esteem.