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Advice, please:
I'm thinking of getting a T/C carbine in 44 mag.
Right now I am shooting 265 BTB-WFNGC sized .431 (at that diameter the 700 bullets I bought average 269 grains +/- one grain) with 22 grain H4227 in Starline brass and WLP primers and getting 1170 fps with good accuracy and only about 12 fps extreme spread out of my 4-5/8" SBH. I want to continue using that bullet and load in a light rifle for times when I need to reach a little farther with good accuracy. By the way, that 22 of H4227 is very clean burning and completely fills that case under that bullet when seated to 1.60 COL. That is one of Hodgdon's so-called Extreme powders. I shot that same load through my friend's new 7-1/2" Ruger SBH hunter and it only increased to about 1240 fps.
Other: I tried chambering that in an older Rossi lever carbine - one without the puma roll marking on the receiver - and the cartridge jammed when feeding. It tried it in a new Winchester 94 levergun and it fed slick as anything. I ran 6 of them through working the lever fast and 6 moving the lever slowly and they fed fine and missed my head by a nice margin when ejected.
THE QUESTIONS: Any recommendations about the T/C carbine in 44 mag? I know the newer barrels are button rifled only about 2 thousands and about pre-1988 are cut rifled about 6 thousands. All of them are 20 to 1 rate of twist just like Ruger. I called Fox Ridge and they didn't think any lead bullet would work very well with the button rifled barrels.
Fox Ridge offers the 44 mag in bull barrel only, and cut to lengths up to 24 inches. Any recommendations on the best barrel length? I know Ruger uses a barrel length of about 18" for 44 rifles, but in the T/C that would look like a sawed off shotgun.
Thank you.
I'm thinking of getting a T/C carbine in 44 mag.
Right now I am shooting 265 BTB-WFNGC sized .431 (at that diameter the 700 bullets I bought average 269 grains +/- one grain) with 22 grain H4227 in Starline brass and WLP primers and getting 1170 fps with good accuracy and only about 12 fps extreme spread out of my 4-5/8" SBH. I want to continue using that bullet and load in a light rifle for times when I need to reach a little farther with good accuracy. By the way, that 22 of H4227 is very clean burning and completely fills that case under that bullet when seated to 1.60 COL. That is one of Hodgdon's so-called Extreme powders. I shot that same load through my friend's new 7-1/2" Ruger SBH hunter and it only increased to about 1240 fps.
Other: I tried chambering that in an older Rossi lever carbine - one without the puma roll marking on the receiver - and the cartridge jammed when feeding. It tried it in a new Winchester 94 levergun and it fed slick as anything. I ran 6 of them through working the lever fast and 6 moving the lever slowly and they fed fine and missed my head by a nice margin when ejected.
THE QUESTIONS: Any recommendations about the T/C carbine in 44 mag? I know the newer barrels are button rifled only about 2 thousands and about pre-1988 are cut rifled about 6 thousands. All of them are 20 to 1 rate of twist just like Ruger. I called Fox Ridge and they didn't think any lead bullet would work very well with the button rifled barrels.
Fox Ridge offers the 44 mag in bull barrel only, and cut to lengths up to 24 inches. Any recommendations on the best barrel length? I know Ruger uses a barrel length of about 18" for 44 rifles, but in the T/C that would look like a sawed off shotgun.
Thank you.