lighter bullets in 44 lever guns?

[healey55]

With the slow twist of the Marlin and Henry big boy lever guns has anyone tried some of the lighter cast bullets of say 200-220 keith type and if so how did they work out?

[Jack Stanley]

I haven't used a Kieth type bullet but I do use the LEE "cowboy" slug .... just over two hundred grains I think it is . I drive them faster than cowboy shooters would but for me it's a utility load , I use the same thing in the four inch forty-four .

They shoot well at thirty yards , haven't tried them beyond that .

Jack

[6pt-sika]

I shoot three bullets in the 200-225 grain weight range in my slow twist 444's .

And they do nicely !

434-207GC castboolits group buy

Lyman 429215

RCBS 44-225 SWC GC

[Newtire]

I have shot the Lee 200 grain in my .444 with 1-38" using 12 grains of Unique or 14 grains of Blue Dot at 50 yds. only. My son used to shoot that load when he was 8 yrs. old. Very accurate. Any more powder and the group opened up from there.

[Baron von Trollwhack]

I'm shooting a .432 200 grain RNFPBB in my Marlin 44M carbine. The load is 22 grains of 2400, WLP, and a heavy crimp. It will hold the 10 ring on the SR-1 target at 100 yards off a good bench usng sandbags. I think the rifle has the 1/38" twist.

BvT

[jlchucker]

the Lyman 429215 is my go-to boolit in my Winchester Trapper and my EMF Hartford 24 inch rifle.