Ruger 44 Carbine

[hamour]

Has any one here used cast boolits in a Ruger 44 carbine? I have two and one is gathering dust. Both are from the early 70's.

One is great with 240 gr jacketed bullets, the other is doing nothing and would like to run some cast through it. I will use lyman #2 so hardness should be right for the speed.

2400 will be the powder, 1500 to 1600 fps velocity target.

Gas checked 270gr WFN is my choice for bullet

Any pointers will be apreciated.

[stubshaft]

I shot the 429421 out of mine for a while using 2400. It shot decently but would gunk up the gas system and I would have to spritz carb cleaner to get the fouling out. I wouldn't use a 270gr boolit in it though, as I was shooting some of the 265 j-words and cracked the trigger housing in half.

[thebigmac]

I shoot the Lyman 429215 in my .44 carbine. NO problems. 2400 is the best powder for this... Try it, you'll like it.....bigmac

[looseprojectile]

with the old .44 carbines is that they have to be fed fairly warm loads to function the actions. Have owned a half dozen of em.
A friend was real close to giving me his gun as it would jam and malfunction.
He was shooting loads that he loaded for his Rossi 92 carbine that were loaded with 20 grains of H110 and the Ranch Dog 270 grain boolit. Was all he needed.
He is not a member or reader here.
Not enough urge for the semi auto.
When he added two grains of powder to his loads everything is golden.
Gotta watch the OAL also in the old tube fed guns with longer nosed boolits.
I like 2400 powder in the straight cased magnums.

Life is good

[hamour]

Thanks for the replies guys.

[JIMinPHX]

I'll assume that you are talking about the old tube-fed .44 Ruger Carbine & not the modern Ruger Deerfield Carbine with the detachable rotary magazine. I shot a few 240 grain cast loads out of one of those tube fed guns several years ago. Then I read the part in the owners manual where it said not to shoot cast out of that gun so I stopped doing it. Neither 6.1 nor 6.7 grains of Bullseye was enough to cycle the rifle. Accuracy was so so.

The old tube fed version is long since discontinued & parts for it are as hard to find as hen's teeth. I would be careful about how I treated a gun like that. It's a real nice little feather weight carbine with some punch behind it. It's a great little 100-yard deer gun. It's hard to replace & even harder to repair.