444 Marlin Pet Loads

[MakeMineA10mm]

With the large following of 444 Marlin loaders we have here, I wonder if we could impress upon Ken to make this thread a sticky for all of us to put our favorite 444 Marlin loads in?

It would be interesting to compare the varied loads.

[MakeMineA10mm]

These first two are my personal "heavy" loads.

285gr LFN-GC (Boomer Mikey's GB of Lyman #429640) in Hornady (LeveRevolution) brass with Winchester primers and 52 grains of RL-7 for 2200 fps.

280gr Swift A-Frame JHP-Partition in Remington brass with Winchester primers and 50 grains of H-322 for 2150 fps.



I have some others, but will have to dig them up.

[Buckshot]

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[dawei]

My "Thumper Load" for both of my Trip4's is:

• Remington® Case (trimmed to 2.215")
• Remington® 9½ large Rifle Primer
• 45.0gr H-4198 powder
• 290gr Beartooth® LFNGC Bullet (296gr total weight)

2249fps

[seabreeze133]

My accuracy load for my 1972 444s is:

Rem brass
WLR primers
290 gr Beartooth. Been using BTB @ .432 and finally slugged the bore and came up w/,429. Go figger.
53 gr 335 will put 5 in .376 @ 50 yd off a bench, but it is not much fun.
Dropped back to 52 gr 335 but now am using a receiver sight and Lyman globe front so no way to compare. Why the iron sights? Well that was the plan from the beginning, but when the scope crosshairs shifted about 30 degrees out of plumb... Gotta remember to send that thing back.

Am going to try 56 gr 335 w/the RD 265 bullet and the Lyman429255....when it cools down a bit.

Don

[helice]

It's great the see the diversity here. Time to get my feet wet. Here goes!

42 gr Re-7 with 429244 Ray Thompson 250 grain
48 gr Re-7 with LBT 300 WFN

Practice loads use a 166 gr LBT OWC or the 429244 over 13 gr of Red Dot or 700X
These are fired from a Winchester 94 Big Bore. Helice

[444Hal]

250gr Nosler Partition w/42.5 of IMR 4198
250gr Beartooth w/ 46 of IMR 4198

265gr Hornady w/ 42.5 of IMR 4198

290gr Beartooth w/ 50.5 of Reloader 7

working on 300 grainers now

[bowhunter]

:Fire:Hi i have been rolling my own for 40 years now. I just started back casting a few after a 20 year lay off. My current 444 load is a great one in my 1975 marlin. 300 gr. Hornady xtp hp. 42 gr. H4198 cci br primed

[FAsmus]

Gentlemen;

You-all sure are shooting light bullets!

Why not go ahead, rebarrel those out-moded slow-twist issue barrels to 1:16 and do some shooting? (Leave as much material on the barrel as seems possible and still hang the magazine tube)

In my 444, rebarrled as in above, I started with a 465 grain bullet and have now found that I get the best perfromance with a fine 500 grain Jones custom mold.

Load is conventional: 19 grains SR4759 + tissue paper filler and 0.050 card wad.

Good afternoon,
Forrest

[bowhunter]

i am very blessed, i live in the woods of S.C. and i have a shooting range at home. i just recieved a mold from ranchdog today and i just casted a few with ww water quinched. i will shoot a group friday and see what i have.