Any favorite loads? I have a smith and wesson 29. i am looking at the 225 grain.

Full charge loads of H110 are usually accurate.
This is also the WW 296 powder.

It is a rare 44 bullet of any weight or design that will not shoot good over a max load of H110 or 296. Just watch your velocity if your planning on close in shots. The leverlution bullets have a pretty thin jacket and are light for caliber they really open up quick. I would be worried about penetration on sub fifty yard shots. I have had 240 grain xtps come apart at around 1800 fps. Neck shot on a deer at about twenty yards.Jacket was in the hide of the entrance core fragmented. The xtp is made much heavier than the leverlution. I don't see you getting hyper velocities out of a 29. But if are planning close shots I would try to find a accurate mid velocity load and keep it off bone.

READ you loading manuals carefully. You cannot get mid velocity loads w/ H110/296. Hornady's website has specific info for loading the leverlution--sp?--loads. IT IS different.

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Originally posted by mike7mm08:
It is a rare 44 bullet of any weight or design that will not shoot good over a max load of H110 or 296. Just watch your velocity if your planning on close in shots. The leverlution bullets have a pretty thin jacket and are light for caliber they really open up quick. I would be worried about penetration on sub fifty yard shots. I have had 240 grain xtps come apart at around 1800 fps. Neck shot on a deer at about twenty yards.Jacket was in the hide of the entrance core fragmented. The xtp is made much heavier than the leverlution. I don't see you getting hyper velocities out of a 29. But if are planning close shots I would try to find a accurate mid velocity load and keep it off bone.

He is very nicely telling you they are a varmit bullet!! They fragment excessively in my opinion and unless you are shooting 100 yards or more ---- do yourself and the game a favor and use an XTP! I shot 7 deer with lever evolution bullets the first 2 years they came out. They were all distances under 75 yards and all bullets came apart and none exited.

I used to shoot hornady sst slugs out of my 12 gauge. They use a 50 caliber bullet same bullet as the 500 smith. They don't have the soft tip but are constructed just like the leverlution. The newer production do have the soft tip. Anyways after seeing the poor performance on three deer and losing two deer when the slugs blew up on a shoulder I switched slugs. I could not find anything nearly as accurate as the ssts. So I bought a new gun that is how unimpressed I was with the ssts. Hornady is trading flat shooting for performance. I could care less if a bullet has a flatter trajectory. I want it to hold together when it hits the animal. I want a bullet that will perform acceptable at all ranges and shot placement. Hornady leverlution and ssts don't.