Lyman 427098 in 44 Special.

[Marcduper]

Good day all,

I was looking at my Lyman 50th manual and saw data for mold 427098 listed for 44 Special. This mold, I thought was reserved for 44-40. Has any one run this round in 44 special? I tend to like the lighter bullets in 38/357, I figured 44 Special would be similar. What diameter does your mold usually give you?

Thank you!

[Ron Williams]

Hi,
My lyman mould was dropping .429 diameter boolits and was too small for my .44 special, but it does work well in my 44-40 rifle.

Ron

[rintinglen]

+1^
The one I had cast just under .429 and was way too small for my 44 Specials EXCEPT my S&W 544, which has dual cylinders, the original 44-40 and a custom 44 Special. It worked well in that one. Sadly, I lent it to a friend who up and died and I was not able to recover it from his heirs.

[6string]

That’s one bullet I never had any luck using.
I don’t recall the exact “as-cast” diameter, but using them unsized or sized to a couple diameters, it seemed to be pretty mediocre, even just at 20-25 yds.
50 yds? Forget it!

Then again, all the guns I tried it with tended to prefer .431-433” bullets.

[Reg]

I have 2 of the 42798 molds same as the 427098. One drops at 427, the other at. 428. Both way too small for the .44 Spl. Better slug your bore and go according.