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Anyone shoot the 41 magnum????
Oakie
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I have worked up a load for the 41 magnum. I shoot this load out of a marlin 1894 fg and my S&W 41 mag handgun. It is as follows: 10.3 Grains of unique powder, A hornady 210 grain XTP-HP bullet and a magnum primer. This load gives me 3/4 " groups at 50 yards and almost the same at 100. The load is devestating on white tail deer.
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For bowling pin shoots, I load a 215gr SWC by Oregon Trail over 13.2grs of Blue Dot with a Winchester WSP primer.
I shoot this in a 6" model 57.
W.D.
Apparently the new (Alliant) blue dot is somewhat different than Hercules blue dot.
Good shooting, nice group. Back in the old days Hercules nixed mag primers with the faster burning powders. Are you running pistol or rifle primers? My S&W 29's will set of rifle primers, however I usually load a cast round nose for the Win AE 94 44 mag with rifle primers and Lyman's 429421 SWC for the pistols. I ran tons of the old large grain 5744 but have switch over to BlueDot.
Magnum pistol primers is what I use. I will have to try some 2400 that other people suggested. I have a lot of that powder also. I use 2400 in my 22 hornet and 218 bee.
I've been watching this thread, so far nobody has offered up H110 as a powder for the .41.. This is the only powder my Redhawk has ever burned, except maybe when it was proof fired at the factory.
I use H110 or BullsEye. With my loads they are simple to tell apart, if it is jacketed it is full house mag load for deer. If it is lead it is for small game and cans. [8D]