Here is my Rossi 92 carbine, got pretty nice wood on it, best I've seen on a Rossi lever action.
I dont shoot CAS or plink much, I have my rifles for deer hunting and so I have been making up loads to imitate the high velocity .44 WCF loading from the 1920's, and finished up with 24 grains of H4227 and a 200g Hornady XTP bullet in Starline brass. This load will shoot five rounds in three inches at 100 yards.
I chronographed the load the other day and got 1633 fps out of it....
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The only tip I have with this operation is a good roll crimp - not a Lee die crimp. I assummed going in that the Lee Crimp Die was the answer for me same as it had been in the .30/30, but I found the crimp was failing. The bullets wont stay in place for long, no matter how hard you do the crimp die with the thin .44-40 brass, and you get a lot of unburnt H4227 powder grains.
In despair I just roll crimped them in the die for the hell of it, and it worked perfectly - the rounds are locked in place and hardly any powder residue at all.
I swear by the Lee crimp die for the .30/30, but not in the .44 WCF.
I am going to get a peep sight to fit the rear sight dovetail, as my 44 year old eyes are not seeing the rear sight so well as a couple of years ago it seems. I tried turning the rear sight round the other way, but it looked funny and had to be lifted too high in elevation for my liking.
I have been very keen to use this load on a deer. I nearly shot a young red stag with this rifle and load a couple of weeks ago, i had him dead to rights at only ten yards - but he was staring right at me and I hadnt lifted the shoulder to my shoulder yet. He didn't know what I was...and I was slowly moving the rifle up....and then he spooked after a full minute of this. It was thick bush and he was gone in a second.