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All I wanted here was an easy-shooting load with enough penetration to poke a deer through the neck or shoulders, that won’t bust your eardrums if you are pressed to light one or two off w/o earplugs. The Lyman 429667 has about the same meplat of Lyman’s 429421- the bullet Elmer made the 44 famous with. Keith SWCs can be troublesome in lever actions, but #429667 feeds like butter through them and should still kill pretty well.
After digging through old loading manuals and scouring the internet, I loaded these over 7.5 grains of 231. I applied a firm crimp in the groove which produced a finished OAL of 1.640”.
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From Starline & PMC 44 Mag cases, this load produced 860 and 855 fps respectively. PMC is the 'slowest' of my 44 mag brass so the load's doing 850+ from any brass in my pile.
Yesterday was one of those rare MO spring days when the sun was out and the wind was down to 10-15 mph; so I stapled a plate in the middle of some butcher paper and gave the Uberti 44/429667 combo a go at 100 yards. A few offhand shots (taped) I fired five shots, with my wrists rested on my knees and managed a 6 1/2" group. If I was leaving this sight on the revolver, I'd tap it left in the dovetail a frog-hair. But I'm real happy with the accuracy I'm getting from this bullet. Bet it would be a tack driver from a good 44 rifle.
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