This might work! I thought.
So I primed some .44 Special cases that had been sized, deprimed and neck expanded.
I started with 5.0 gr. of Bullseye, then shoved the .40 S&W cartridge into the .44 Special cartridge and crimped it in place.
Next I folded up some heavy white bath towels. These were from the rental property but were no longer serviceable and were give to me to use as shop rags. I folded them and stacked them against a heavy board. There was about 16" of cloth. The board was "just in case."
Then, from about 12 inches away I fired into the cloth, then recovered the projectile and did it all again but this time with 6.0 gr. of Bullseye. The 5 gr. load penetrated a foot of cloth. The 6 gr. load went several inches further. A little more and it would have exited the cloth. Which is why I had the board there.
On the 6 gr. load, the .40 S&W case was against the powder charge.
Now i am gonna have to load some of these and take them to the Range and try them at various distances out to 20 or 25 yards. Being so light they will lose velocity very rapidly.
I am sure someone else - perhaps someone on this Forum - has tried this before. I used to do such things in the .475 Linebaugh using .45 ACP cases. We got them up over 2000 fps and were accurate enough to take down the chicken targets on the handgun silhouette range.
We shall see if the .40's work in the .44 Special. They are perfect size for the .44-40 ...... just sayin' .........
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