I have a small pile of 44 magnum ammo that has to be 20-25 years old now. It came with a Taurus 44 that my father in law bought from his cousin (I think?). His cousin was a gun guy and reloaded. But I never met the guy, know nothing about his knowledge or skills. I also hear a lot of stories about that side of the family being not the brightest bulbs in the lightbox.
There are three different types of ammo.
- 25 rds Hornady 300gn XTR
These look like factory loads. They are in the original box and all headstamps match. Lead tips are corroded and 4-5 of the cases have scary splits in them. - 50 rounds 240gn reloads
These are in a Federal Eagle box, but headstamps are mixed and writing on the box indicates reloads. lead tips are corroded and very oddly about 1/3 of them seem to have small pieces of gravel in the hollow point. I have no idea what that is. Was it something people did at one point? Did someone just somehow drop these all in a pile of tiny gravel and not clean them out? - 15 rounds of what looks like factory Federal Eagle.
I probably wouldn't have a problem shooting this. It seems in fine shape.
Thoughts?
(right to left - Hornady, Reload, Reload w/gravel, Federal Factory)
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