.429 or .430 for 44spl/mag

[txshooter524]

Not sure what to size my bullets to .429 or .430 for .44mag/spl. Please help!
Thanks

[bowenrd]

Slug the barrel if you can. The closer the fit the better. I would at least go .430

[txshooter524]

These won't just be for my gun..,considering selling them...so what would be most common?

[bowenrd]

There are liabilities for selling bullets (not loaded ammo) and a federal permit required from what I have read.

[Blammer]

.430 would be most common.

[mooman76]

It's easier to make the bulllet smaller after the fact than it is to make it larger from a smaller bullet. A little bigger in this case is always better. Plus the fact that you can shoot a slightly larger bullet as long as it chambers ok. And like already stated it will usually need to be 430 or even larger.

[Dale53]

I have a variety of .44 Specials and .430" works perfectly in ALL of them. All four of them will group under 1" at 25 yards (one at a time:mrgreen).

Dale53

[mike in co]

just to shake things up my super redhawk takes a 432.....
cylinder is 4326

[mtgrs737]

I would size the boolit as large as your revolver throats are or a maximum of .002" over the barrel groove diameter. I have a S&W 629 at the cylindersmiths right now having the cylinder throats reamed and honed to .431 from .428". I size my 44 boolits to .431". Good luck!