I’d like to buy a Marlin lever rifle in 44 magnum for deer and bear. The issue is I’d like to use the same load in my handgun also.

What would be a good choice of bullet? I don’t cast my own.
Thanks in advance
Vinnyg

Hard cast bullets. Give Montana Bullet Works a shot, they have some great bullets.
http://www.montanabulletworks.com/default.php

Try 300gr Nosler HP bullets. Superbly accurate in both my Marlin 44P and Colt Anaconda Real Tree. Oh, and it makes really big holes and penetrates like crazy. Thru both shoulders of a 400lb boar...leaving behind an exit hole you can shove a baseball thru...I shit you not. Don't need anything else! BTW, I shoot cast too...but not in these guns.

Woody

I use a 300 grain hornady xtp. Shoot accurately and preform well in my 1894 marlin and smith and wesson 29.

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Originally posted by buckeyeshooter:
I use a 300 grain hornady xtp. Shoot accurately and preform well in my 1894 marlin and smith and wesson 29.

Do you seat the bullets in two different lines “Cannelure†for the Rifle vs. revolver?

Vg

I seat the bullet in the channlure for both, with a medium crimp.

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Originally posted by vinnyg:

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Originally posted by buckeyeshooter:
I use a 300 grain hornady xtp. Shoot accurately and preform well in my 1894 marlin and smith and wesson 29.

Do you seat the bullets in two different lines “Cannelure†for the Rifle vs. revolver?

Vg

In my Marlin 94-44 mag I have to seat the XTP in the forward canalure.In my 629,I can seat in the rear canalure.

only fly in the ointment is with heavy bullets. Alot of the heavy cast designs are to long for a marlin if you use the crimp grove. I hate to say it because i dont much care for them but a wfn might be the way to go for a heavy in a 44 marlin. I love jacketed bullets too. they come in real handy for blowing the lead out of my barrel on condom bullets!

The Marlin is funny. I have no problems working a 320 gr LBT or my 330 gr LBT style through mine. But I have a much shorter long range boolit with a small meplat, almost a spitzer, that I have to cut brass down for. The Lee 310 works too.
The big problem is finding long range accuracy with the stupid 1 in 38" twist.
My rifling on the Ballard is the same .003" deep as the micro groove is and boolits can skid like crazy if started too fast. I think the micro groove has better grip.
Marlin slipped up bad on the .44 and won't admit it. They changed the .444 to 1 in 20" but won't change the .44.
I have had some super accuracy at 50 yd's but at 100, my slingshot is better.

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Originally posted by bfrshooter:
Marlin slipped up bad on the .44 and won't admit it. They changed the .444 to 1 in 20" but won't change the .44.
I have had some super accuracy at 50 yd's but at 100, my slingshot is better.

bfrshooter,
So is the Winchester 94 in 44 Magnum an alternative answer to these Marlin issues?
Also:
Today I just picked up a pound of H110 and have some 240 grain JSP by Remington in stock. I’ve read that under charged loads can be dangerous with H110?
Every load data I have found is different in Case, Primer type (LP, LPM) and starting grains.

I figure I'd make loads of 22.0 / 22.5 /23.0 / 23.5 Grains of H110, but should I try using different Primers in each load, (Federal 150 LP vs. the Federal 155 LPM)? "You stated once that the Magnum primer increase your group sizes"

Vg

I don't know what the twist is on the WW but to be sure it can't be as bad as the Marlin.
I love Marlins and none of the other calibers are hard to get to shoot, just the .44. Some pencil neck at a desk figured the twist.