Anyone using .44 spl and HS6?

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Anyone using .44 spl and HS6?

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As the title says is anyone shooting .44 special with 240gn, .429, RNFP and using HS6 and how much powder you using and what groups you getting.

I'll be shooting them through a Winchester 94ae trapper 16"

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I use 5.4gr of TiteGroup for reduced loads in the 44mag with the 200grn LRNFP bullets and get very good results, low ES and it uses about half the powder you do with HS6.

Here's a link to some 44mag reduced loads using HS6, http://www.chuckhawks.com/hs6_44mag_reloads.htm
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Thanks for the link, Hodgson load data is saying Start at 6.5gn and max is 8.0gn but your link is talking about starting at 10gns

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As I said those are for reduced load 44mag, IMO a better option than using 44spl. 200gr shoot very nicely with reduced loads, using 5.4 of TiteGroup they were around 880fps with an ES of 13 in my Henry BigBoy. The 240gr with the same load drops to around 750fps with a larger ES.

If you've already got 44spl cases etc. then 6.5 to 7.5gr of HS6 will give around 760 to 870fps so nice enough to shoot all day for 25m gallery :good:
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phaedra1106 wrote:As I said those are for reduced load 44mag, IMO a better option than using 44spl. 200gr shoot very nicely with reduced loads, using 5.4 of TiteGroup they were around 880fps with an ES of 13 in my Henry BigBoy. The 240gr with the same load drops to around 750fps with a larger ES.

If you've already got 44spl cases etc. then 6.5 to 7.5gr of HS6 will give around 760 to 870fps so nice enough to shoot all day for 25m gallery :good:
Sounds good, was using HS6 in my .38spl Rossi and was getting good groups. I also have two tubs of it so want to try it with the .44 before I go spending out more money on different powders.

I was given 100 rounds of .44 from a mate and they are very accurate (90-96 standing) I think he uses Tight-group but not 100%, sure he'll coment on here and put me right troutslapping

Just need to get time to load a few and try them out

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hobbesy wrote: I was given 100 rounds of .44 from a mate and they are very accurate (90-96 standing) I think he uses Tight-group but not 100%, sure he'll coment on here and put me right troutslapping

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