I have not picked it up yet, but it should be here sometime next week. In the meantime, I have been scouring and digging to see exactly what I want to shoot in it.
I do know that I want to shoot the heavies, and so I have the Lee 310 grain mold on the way also. Now I am just trying to narrow it down to powder.
My goal is to have a good deer gun for shots up to 125 yards or so. I am going to put a fixed power 4x on it.
The thing that is hard seems to be sifting through all the pistol load information, and the fact that most rifle load data is for the lever guns.
Ive never loaded for the 44 mag before, so I do not have any of the 'normal' powders used for it. I do have Unique and will be working with it to start out.
It seems that H110/W296 is the go to powder other than that right? I know 2400 is popular, but I have not seen it around in a long time.
I'll be sure to keep this updated as I work with the gun, but am hoping I can gleen some more information than what I seem to be finding about using the 300+ grain boolits in the 44 mag rifle. Like I said, most information is geared toward pistols(I do understand they are safe to shoot in rifles) and most data is centered around 240 grain boolits - not the heavies.
Is 110/296 as hard to work with as some say? Would Unique get me where I would like to be?