SPECIAL .44 Specials

by JimT, Texas, Sunday, June 25, 2023, 16:23 (516 days ago)

I got a wild urge today and went to the shop and measured some .40 S&W fired cartridges. I measured the solid part of the case head just north of the extractor groove. They were from .425" to .427" on the ones I measured. PERFECT!

So I took a sized, primed, neck-expanded .44 Special, dumped in 5.0 gr. weight of Bullseye, seated the 40 S&W case base-first into the .44 Special and crimped it good.

Then I took some heavy white bath towels (these were in the rental house but were no longer serviceable for that purpose and were given to me as shop rags) folded them neatly and stood them in line with a heavy board backing them just in case, and fired into the towels.

I recovered the projectile and repeated the experiment ... this time with 6.0 gr. of Bullseye. The .40 S&W case was hard against the powder charge. I fired that and recovered the projectile. It came within an inch or so of penetrating all the towels I had lined up ... about 12" or a bit more.

Now I am gonna have to load some and take them to the range and test them for accuracy!

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