Congrats on adding a new Marlin to the he stable! I wish you and your dad would give me a chance on scoring a deal on a used gun around here. Between your last few Marlins and his deals on the Single Six and Mountie last year, I'm over due.
Congrats on adding a new Marlin to the he stable! I wish you and your dad would give me a chance on scoring a deal on a used gun around here. Between your last few Marlins and his deals on the Single Six and Mountie last year, I'm over due.
I haven't seen the 444 listed in Marlins catalog for the last 3-4 months.
Political correctness is a national suicide pact.
I am a sovereign individual, accountable
only to God and my own conscience.
The upside is they can't mess up what they don't make.
I give loading advice based on my actual results in factory rifles with standard chambers, twist rates and basic accurizing.
My goals for using cast boolits are lots of good, cheap, and reasonably accurate shooting, while avoiding overly tedious loading processes.
The BHN Deformation Formula, and why I don't use it.
How to find and fix sizing die eccentricity problems.
Do you trust your casting thermometer?
A few musings.
I shoot Cowboy Lever Action silhouette with my 1969 Marlin 444.
I load a 240gr. Berry's plated FP,Winchester LR primer,Starline brass with
12.0 gr. of IMR 700X. It chronos at 1350fps, knocks over the 65lb steel ram target
at 200yds. easily, and kicks like a .22lr. Reloading is a must, as 20 rounds of
Hornady Leverlution ammo was $40.00+.
Thanks again for all the information from those who posted here. Also, thank you to the members who responded to my WTB ad for dies and brass; thanks to them I was able to acquire a set of dies and a good supply of R-P and Hornady brass. I loaded up a few rounds Wednesday evening using Glen Fryxell's accuracy load of 52.0gr H322 under a 270gr. Speer Deep Curl. 5 quick off-hand shots at 25yds shows good potential, but I have to say they kicked like a mule!!!
Just something to be aware of, the Hornady Leverevolution brass is a mite shorter than other brands of brass. Not a problem, really, but for a consistent crimp you may want to keep them separated.
"Experience is a series of non-fatal mistakes"
Disarming is a mistake free people only get to make once...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |