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View Poll Results: What is your best powder for accuracy?

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  • H110/W296

    204 34.23%
  • Alliant 2400

    223 37.42%
  • IMR 4227

    42 7.05%
  • W231

    16 2.68%
  • Accurate No. 9

    26 4.36%
  • Other (please specify)

    85 14.26%
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Thread: 44 Mag powders, poll

  1. #121
    Boolit Master
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    One of my favorite. 44mag loads is 19.7g of WC 820 and a 429421hp that weighs 235g as cast. Velocity from a Ruger KS458N is 1307fps with an SD of 6. 5 shots

    From a bench rest in2.5 inches with a hunting type sight known as a
    "Hole in the wall" sight. Not a great sight for usual target work, but great for hunting.
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    I use 2400 for serious loads and w231 for plinking I have a lot of both and they work for me
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  3. #123
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    Unique and IMR4227, mostly Unique, but I both in 8 lb jugs. Heck, when we first started reloading handgun, dad bought Unique in 15 lb cardboard kegs. Dad was already using Unique in shotshell so it made sense to him. Heck, it's been good stuff since 1899.
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  4. #124
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    I voted "Other" as my most accurate powder in several different handguns has been Accurate 4100. In my 6½" 629 Classic using a 260 SWC GC and WLP primers my most accurate hunting load is 19.0 grains.

  5. #125
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    Add me to the H110 & Unique group. H110 at 23.5 grs & Unique at 8.0 grs covers everything I want to do.

  6. #126
    Boolit Mold
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    "2400 for magnums." I could swear I read this verse in the King James Bible.😉

  7. #127
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    Quote Originally Posted by 9mmskng View Post
    "2400 for magnums." I could swear I read this verse in the King James Bible.��
    I think you did it's right there with "In the beginning "

  8. #128
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    Quote Originally Posted by GrayTech View Post
    Nobody likes AA#9 ?
    I end up shooting mostly Unique in 44 Mag. It's versatile, with a huge range of loads. After Unique, I shoot mostly W296 in magnum loads because I found a good deal on it. But #9 is my preferred for full power loads. It just seems like I shoot more accurately with #9. I can't explain it better, maybe it's all in my mind.

  9. #129
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    Since my local gun club ditched "real" IHMSA for that sissy hunter stuff, my only full-charge 240-gr .44 Mags have been for hunting, and the 2400 I've been using for that since nineteen seventy freaking five (labelled Hercules, not Alliant) is still serving admirably. I recently scored some Alliant 2400 so I guess I'll have to ladder it all over again, which will no doubt be a pain since there are one M29, two SBH, one B92, one 788, one Handi-Rifle and a Deerstalker in which to test it.
    My usual .44 diet runs the gamut of double-bullet Lee 120 WC to PM HBWC to Lyman Keith to Lee 310, with any powder from Bullseye/231/HP38/TiteGroup through all the Dots/Unique/Herco to 4227, LilGun, VV3N37, you name it, depending on application. I've tried to make my .44 SPL and Mag guns do sort of a one-caliber (OK, caliber and a half) multi-tasking gig to the point where my other-caliber guns mostly sit around hosting spiders. At one point I had no 1911 (gasp!) and a lot of .45 ACP brass, so we sized it down with a shop vise and shortened a couple of unemployed dies to make what we called a .44/45 midget, loaded them with three point something of bullseye and the little Lee 120 WC, and ran them through the B92, in the old load-it-on-Sunday-and-shoot-it-all-week fashion, foreshadowing the new .45 Cowboy Special except in the .44 caliber. Yes, there was enough rim for it to function. One of my enduring regrets is that Lee discontinued that boolit and that mine is of the horrid '70s design and a mere single cavity.
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  10. #130
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    I can't pick 1 I like several different powders for 44 at different power ranges.

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    Old Einsford 3f

  12. #132
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    2400 is the most flexible of the ones listed IMO. Its better for lighter loads in the guns Ive tried it. AA9 is very good. But I dont download it very much.H110 or 296 is when I want top velocities for sure.
    Been monkeying around with AA11FS. Showed some promise with 240 grain bullets at the minimum suggested load at 50 meters from a Henry BB. 8 shots in a 1.5 inch group with the 9th stringing out from there about 2 inches. Best ever with that rifle.
    Very soft shooting low muzzleblast powder. I like Unique for plinking. But 2400 is my go to all around.

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    Im a HUGE fan if Lil Gun in my 44 mag levers (i dont own a 44 mg revolver (gasp)

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    Quote Originally Posted by badguybuster View Post
    Im a HUGE fan if Lil Gun in my 44 mag levers (i dont own a 44 mg revolver (gasp)
    Blasphemy! You need to remedy that situation.

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    Ww540/HS6 AND WW571/HS7.

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    I don't own a .44 Magnum, but if I did and needed to create full-house loads quickly, I'D want to use Alliant 2400, followed closely by IMR/H4227. I'm pretty sure that the ballistics I'll obtain will be slightly inferior to what is obtainable by H110/W296, but I'm not a fan of it for anything except .30 Carbine. In any work-up I do on a cartridge, I want more than a 3% margin between starting and max, and I'll CHEERFULLY forego a few f/s muzzle velocity for it.
    For "other than full-house" loads, I'd want Unique or Herco. Either will deliver up to 75-85% of the max performance obtainable from a .44 Mag., with respectable accuracy, and budget-friendly economy, compared to the true magnum pistol powders. Unique and Herco are also of the right burning rate to work well in sub-1000 f/s loads, on which non-veteran shooters may learn the ways of the big-bores.
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  17. #137
    Boolit Buddy
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    I like from my limited experimentation N110 works well with an 1892 clone

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    Boolit Master
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    I have found that a powder coated 240 gr. boolit over 11.1 grains of HS-6 works very well in my SBH. Also use that powder for 210 gr. .44 Special loads, 8 grains.

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    H110/296 for most of my jacketed bullets and mostly 2400 for my cast.

  20. #140
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    Lyman cast bullet manual is online free as a pdf to download.
    Just google it and scroll down.

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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
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