Can I Shoot 44 Special in 44 Mag

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1. I've read and heard it is OK to shoot .44 special in a handgun chambered for .44 magnum.

   Is this universally truthful for any .44 magnum, and specifically for a Colt Anaconda?

   Thanks.

2. Absolutely, yes! Well, no. Autos chambered for .44 Mag aren't likely to swallow Specials happily. But revolvers will!

   Might want to clean the fouling out of the chambers before y'all switch dorsum to Mags, but that's easy and no big deal.

4. Yes sir, .44 specials will shoot through a 44 mag revolver, just like 38 specials can exist used in a 357 mag revolver. Keeps practice time a little less expensive.

5. If you use heavy .44 Special loads, you risk eventually spalling the charging pigsty walls, then that the diameter is wider just by the instance rima oris. Would accept many rounds, but would result in pasty extraction of .44 Mag loads used afterward.

   Similarly, weaker .44 Special loads with lead bullets could deposit debris only forward of the example mouth. Might mean a lot of scrubbing earlier y'all could hands load .44 Mags.

   Same equally .38/.357, .45 Colt/.454 Casull, etc.

6. If you plan to shoot a lot of .38s in a .357 or .44SPLs in a .44Mag, recommend you lot continue a few heavily loaded, fired, and unsized .357/.44Mag cases around. Utilize them to make the first pass on cleaning the aforementioned brusque round grime from your cylinder--just run them into the chambers and watched their expanded mouth force most of the debris correct out.

7. I load for .44 Magnum/Special and .357 Magnum/.38 Special. I utilize Special loads in magnum brass. The longer brass keeps the charge holes from fouling with shorter brass.

8. Everyone e'er goes off on the shorter cartridge path and fouling of the cylinder. I ain 5 .357 revolvers and 4 .44 mag revolvers. Never, never, always been an event in any of mine.

   In fact I have a 29 MG that has only fired .44 Spl since new, still chambers .44 mag just fine.

9. I as well. Apparently xv,000 rds isn't enough to cause any problems. But I do clean mine every 500-i,000, then it isn't an exhaustive test.

10. Far more than important question then like shooting fish in a barrel chambering is.

    Does the hard carbon ring prevent the longer Mag example for fully expanding the crimp to release the bullet when fired?

    Of class it does.

    Clean the dang chambers earlier shooting full power magnums after shooting shorter Spec. shells in it.

    rc

11. Shoot all you want BUT proceed it make clean.

12. I gauge it depends on what powder you utilise equally to how hard the fouling rings are and how fast they build up. For my own .357'due south I've found that the ring builds up to where it'south a chip of a button to seat magnum cases subsequently effectually 300 to 400 rounds. Lately I've been using a lot of ammo loaded with Bullseye since I bought upwards a large supply of it from an manor auction.

    It hasn't been a big issue because I tend to clean the guns at effectually that betoken equally the outsides have as well gotten to where I tin can't stand to look at them any longer....

    Now this raises a proficient point for consideration. It'due south very mutual to shoot a lot of .38 Spl from these guns considering the .38Spl is so piece of cake and cheaper to come by compared to Magnum. Merely from what I've seen for .44Mag information technology's the other fashion around where information technology'south far more common to find loaded .44Mag ammo and empty .44Mag cases for reloading than it is to observe loaded ammo or cases for .44Spl. And from what I've heard when you Do notice a source of .44Spl there'due south often non much of it and it costs equally much or more than than .44Mag.

    On top of this a person either needs to be crazy rich or simply crazy to shoot manufactory .44Mag at the price they are asking. Reloading just makes so much sense for the big ".40 something" calibers. And if yous're reloading anyhow why not use the more usually available .44Mag brass and simply utilize load recipes which requite .44Spl functioning?

    So yeah, you can certainly shoot .44Spl from a .44Mag gun. But I actually uncertainty the carbon buildup will get an issue since it'll be hard and expensive to find enough .44Spl to actually build upwardly such a band.....

13. For me and my uses, the .44 Special cases are just WAAAAY easier to go to eject clean and clear from the 629, which is very important in practical matches where reloads are on the clock. .44 Mag cases are l...o...north...k and very often get a little hung up, caught on the stocks, or otherwise foul a quick reload. Then .44 Spc rules. Heck, I've loaded .44 Russians for even more benefit, but they are actually then curt that they're harder to become lined up when using some kinds of speed loaders! (And, IDPA's great new dominion changes make them illegal for competition this yr. )

    Only yeah, .44 Special is no where almost as common and is far more expensive than .44 Mag, from the factory. I bought my 629 at the height of a contempo panic and had trouble even finding enough .44 Spc. factory ammo to use for one lucifer. I ended up switching to Mags. in the middle of a stage...."Bang, Blindside, Bang, Blindside, Bang, Bang,...BOOOOOM, BOOOOM!" The Safety Officer got a express mirth out of that.

14. I've shot those ii calibers (357 and 44 Magnums) for years. Information technology took just one fourth dimension to feel the longer cartridges being hard or impossible to bedchamber because of the fouling left in the chambers. Knowing what it would do to pressures and consistancy with the Magnum cased loads, I began to use only Magnum brass and properly congenital Special class loads in Magnum cases. On occasion I would use Special cased loads, only I had flared empty Magnum cases to cutting the carbon out of the chambers earlier chambering Magnum length cartridges.

    Terminal edited: Dec 16, 2011

15. Sam, you lot raise a point that had not even occured to me in terms of shooting such a gun in matches. As someone that may try using my brusk barrel Super Redhawk for some IDPA fun at some signal I'll accept to continue this in listen.

    But since y'all're shooting primarily for the friction match it's non a big bargain since you'd know that you need to clean things out earlier chambering and shooting magnums.

    Also for something every bit specific every bit your needs could you not shorten magnum casings? Or do the walls taper enough that they'd be likewise thick at that point?

16. Information technology is a lot of fun to shoot the large wheel-gun in competition. I don't know if the Redhawk makes the weight limits, just probably would in ESR, if non SSR. The 629 is (obviously) the same size equally the 625JM that is then popular in ESR, so it really isn't at a size disadvantage.Yep, and I merely shoot mayhap 1:one,000 magnums to specials anyway. But, honestly, I don't usually remember to clean it first. My loads are pretty clean and I've never noticed any resistence chambering Mags.I'd imagine y'all could...just WHY? Starline sold me several boxes of pre-shortened cases a few years ago...they but say ".44 SPC." on them!

17. rc model'south bespeak is well made,
    but it has near nothing to do with residue from shorter casings, and everything to practice with cleaning and inspecting your gun in betwixt shooting sessions, and information technology doesn't take a lot of existent special effort

    Thousands of u.s. shoot 100:1 ratio on 38 vs 357 mags in our 38/357 guns. I, similar others, accept done and so for decades and never seen so much equally a hint of any issues.

    Keeping your tools make clean never was a bad notion
    enjoy, 44 sp deserves more attending than information technology usually gets

18. True, oldfool, merely it can happen in one outing, dependent on the special cased load components. That was my feel.

19. I'm nonetheless casting around for a good handgun powder that tends to burn cleaner than some of the options I've tried out so far. What are yous using?Well, if you want to take the easy way out like this then I suppose.... From all the stuff I've read about .44Spl being about as rare as hen's teeth I figured that getting brass might exist an issue. Obviously not. And since revolvers drib the contumely in nice neat little piles I'm guessing information technology makes it easy to pick up your empties while leaning over to think the speed loaders.

20. Trail Boss! Fills that instance right up and when it'south only full information technology volition toss a 200 gr. LRN at 850 fps, which is exactly what I needed.The difference is trying to detect the brass at a local store or maybe Cabela's shop, vs. buying from Midway or direct through Starline. It isn't really more than expensive when you lot're getting it from the source in bulk. They sell enough of the slightly less common calibers (10mm, .41 Magazine, .44 Spc., and that sort) to proceed the prices low.

    I don't lose much, simply I do go peradventure 5% seem to split the mouths in the first 5 loadings or so. Afterward that, they pretty much concluding forever.

21. Trail Dominate? I've got some I've used for doing some "Special" power level loadings. I didn't notice information technology as being particularly make clean. I'll try some more than and keep a closer eye on the results. Gotta use it upwardly afterward all....

22. I don't think information technology is as make clean equally Clays or other fast burners similar that. Only I am able to shoot seemingly forever without fouling significant enough to bother cleaning.

    I like the stuff! Certain goes through the measure fast, though! Load a box, load another, fill up the hopper. Load a box, load another, fill up the hopper.

23. Yeah, I went to buy the pound of it and the guy game me two bottles because it won't fit in i like other powders. Turns out it's a bit more than expensive because of this as well.

    I originally bought it for my buddy that shoots CAS along with me. But somehow forth the way he tried a hundred shots with information technology and didn't like it and went and bought some Clays Universal which he loves. And so I paid for the TB, permit him load about 100 rounds and then inherited what was left that I didn't really need in the get-go place......

    Expert affair he lets me drinkable a lot of his better single malt when I'm over there.....

24. I've heard the same stuff nigh the carbon band causing problems when chambering the magnums, but later on thousands of rounds of both, I've all the same to experience any problems of any type. But as everyone else is saying also, I keep my guns clean and brand sure they get cleaned after each session.

25. Yep, a bottle of TB isn't really a pound. Just the shop I use sells a bottle of it for about $ix-10, so information technology works out to be just about as cheap equally other powders selling for $15-18/ lb., I think.TB is good stuff to have on hand anyway. It is an awesome fool-proof powder for making reduced rifle loads. Want a grooming load to teach your 10 twelvemonth old daughter to shoot your .458 Win Magazine? TrailBoss is your pulverization!

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