44 loads with unique

[bagup37]

will do 5 rounds at 6.5gr and see how they get on!

Cheers.

6.0gns of Unique with a 240gn RNFP, is pretty much the standard .44 load in our club. It's .44spl data in a magnum case. No issues. A recipe I started with 30 years ago for a accurate revolver load and it transferred over to carbines just as well.

With jacketed take it up to 6.5gns.

[simgre]

I would do yourself 25 rounds. You can't get a good impression from one group, IMO.

[bagup37]

I would do yourself 25 rounds. You can't get a good impression from one group, IMO.

thanks simgre did 15 rounds of 6.5gr not much whoomf but nice and accurate at 25m will try 8gr for a bit more poke!

[kennyc]

thanks simgre did 15 rounds of 6.5gr not much whoomf but nice and accurate at 25m will try 8gr for a bit more poke!

accuracy is the point
if you want to feel you have shot a magnum, then my old clubs 2" Charter Arms bulldog with full load FMJ's was the way to go, strangely not many came back for another 5 shots after the first cylinder

[MikB]

Back in pistol days I used to load 11.0 of Unique behind 240 grain bullets, whether JHP or gaschecked Keith type, in my old Ruger Blackhawk. It wasn't the severest load I used, but it was sharp enough not to want heavier if you were firing a few cylinders of 'em. It'd throw bowling pins hard against the backstop, and few of them would survive more than 3 hits or so. Anything more tended to work the action screws loose, even after loctiting them...

I really liked Unique. It worked for me in everything from .32 ACP to .577 Snider.

[kennyc]

Back in pistol days I used to load 11.0 of Unique behind 240 grain bullets, whether JHP or gaschecked Keith type, in my old Ruger Blackhawk. It wasn't the severest load I used, but it was sharp enough not to want heavier if you were firing a few cylinders of 'em. It'd throw bowling pins hard against the backstop, and few of them would survive more than 3 hits or so. Anything more tended to work the action screws loose, even after loctiting them...

I really liked Unique. It worked for me in everything from .32 ACP to .577 Snider.

its still working for me in 7.5x55

[tacfoley]

its still working for me in 7.5x55

I'd like to hear about your load, having been given a 100 or so gas-check bullets from Andy Allwood.

TIA.

[MikB]

its still working for me in 7.5x55

Ah, but waht was so nice about 577 Snider was that finishing with half-a-dozen rounds of Unique blew away every trace of fouling from the Pyrodex I was using for the other 50 rounds...

Or maybe it was the polenta filling I was using did that?

[sarge4318]

thanks simgre did 15 rounds of 6.5gr not much whoomf but nice and accurate at 25m will try 8gr for a bit more poke!

6.5gn Unique is my go to load for this combination bits and nice pleasant indoor shooting.

Do you really need more poke? Save powder and the paper target will be just as holed.