MikeS
06-01-2011, 01:55 PM
Hi All.
I used to reload when I was a kid, then didn't for many years till I started again a couple of years ago. While going thru some of my fathers shooting stuff, I found an old Case-Gard 50 box with a Speer label on the bottom that was obviously my handwriting, and it had load data for a 44 Mag load, using a Speer 240gr bullet, 19.7gr of 2400 powder with Alcan large pistol primers. I'm wondering if this was a heavy load, or a light one? At first I was surprised, as I never reloaded for a pistol back then (I was 12 years old when I started reloading), then I remembered that we had a Ruger 44Mag semi-auto carbine that I must have made that load for. It's funny, I remember reloading for 22-250 (even found a single 22 bullet in a toolbox of my fathers, I'm guessing that it's a Speer too), 30-40, and 7mm Rem Mag, but not for the 44Mag! Sure do wish I still had the rifles those cartridges went to!
I used to reload when I was a kid, then didn't for many years till I started again a couple of years ago. While going thru some of my fathers shooting stuff, I found an old Case-Gard 50 box with a Speer label on the bottom that was obviously my handwriting, and it had load data for a 44 Mag load, using a Speer 240gr bullet, 19.7gr of 2400 powder with Alcan large pistol primers. I'm wondering if this was a heavy load, or a light one? At first I was surprised, as I never reloaded for a pistol back then (I was 12 years old when I started reloading), then I remembered that we had a Ruger 44Mag semi-auto carbine that I must have made that load for. It's funny, I remember reloading for 22-250 (even found a single 22 bullet in a toolbox of my fathers, I'm guessing that it's a Speer too), 30-40, and 7mm Rem Mag, but not for the 44Mag! Sure do wish I still had the rifles those cartridges went to!