44 Magnum and Unique Powder Question

[Jack Stanley]

Just for what it's worth to you , my carbine/revolver load is ten grains Unique under a Remington 240 grain soft point . If I remember right the velocity in the carbine is over twelve hundred feet per second . A four inch S&W revolver gives about nine fifty .... But I've been away from the Chrony a very long time .

Accuracy is very good and the carbine has brought home venison with no troubles at all .

Jack

[429421Cowboy]

Not much to add to this, but i have probably reloaded more .44 Magnum than any other round, and almost all of them (95%+) were a 240-250 gr boolit with 9.5gr of Unique. I started loading just because of having a .44, and used 9gr for awhile, then bumped it up to 9.5 to seal the cases better and clean things up. If it ain't broke, I'm not going to fix it. That load will absolutely sail right though any deer I've tried it on and has done the job on plenty of cows as well.
I picked it because it was easy to spot a double charged case, Unique can be loaded in about any rifle, pistol or shotgun round out there in some form or another, and with a 240-ish grain bullet there is a HUGE load range in published loads, down to very light for the Hornady swaged bullets up to quite a bit hotter than what i load it at. I figured at the time that gave me a pretty decent margin of error learning to load, and here i am a decade and some later still failing to find anything i like to load better.