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Reloading the .44 Mag for a rifle, it is a Rossi with the heavy 24" barrel and 250-300 grain bullets. Any hints or tips on modest loads for such a thing?

In my Marlin 24” Cowboy I use GM Hardcast 240grn RNFP Bullets with 5.6 grn of Unique which is good to 100m

for what its worth i run:

240grn RNFP with 4.8grn of Titegroup.

Bearing in mind this is only used for gallery rifle up to 50m.

I have the 16" Rossi in .44 Magum
I use the following as starting loads with 240gr Cast:
N110 18gr
Unique 8 to 10 gr
2400 18gr

Even with a naff shoulder, I can shoot these all day long.

Currently working up a load using N320

Fill the case to 1/10th of an inch more than the base of the bullet when seated with Swiss No 2 (fffg) black powder, seat, compress, roll crimp and away you go. Black powder loaded this way is by far the most accurate load in my underlevers (1860 in 44-40, 1866 in 32-20, 1873 in 38-40).

dromia wrote:Fill the case to 1/10th of an inch more than the base of the bullet when seated with Swiss No 2 (fffg) black powder, seat, compress, roll crimp and away you go. Black powder loaded this way is by far the most accurate load in my underlevers (1860 in 44-40, 1866 in 32-20, 1873 in 38-40).

Something else I need to try as well.

Black powder in my Marlin - never gonna happen!

Aye they are pretty fragile those Marlins.

240gr rnfp with 5.2 grains of Bullseye, used for 20 yard gallery, also tested with 200gr and same powder load

As I do not have any Bullseye I was going to try Viht N310 behind some 240 grain Shellhouse.