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jimatcat
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looking for .44 special pet loads... prefer lighter bullets.. 160's, 180's... pistol is a Lew Horton 3" smith 24.. thanks, jim


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Get Ken Waters' Pet Loads; you will read it daily like I do. It all depends on how fast you want them to go. I use Unique, 6.5 grains. Very light load but the S&W can take far more than that.
 
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Sorry nothing near that light. But in the 240 area like Tom said Unigue,I've also used Herco and Red Dot.


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Brian pierce has written some good work with the special. Mostly cast 250 but that is what makes a special most happy! Hand loader magazine I think is where it was.


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Been shooting .44 Special for 40 yrs. now, I load nothing buy 200gr. RNFP bullets over 7.5gr. Unique. The Skeeter Skelton load, it is a great load in all my .44 Special revolvers.
 
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I got best accuracy with 6.5 Hercules Red Dot and a 240 grain cast lead SWC.
 
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I use 6 grains of unique and a 200 graincast for cowboy action shooting. Chronos 840 fps average out of 4 different ruger vaqueros. 1 set 4 5/8 barels and the other set 5 1/2 inch barels.
 
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